Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

Holiness is the habit of being of one mind with God, according as we find His mind described in Scripture. It is the habit of agreeing in God's judgment, hating what He hates, loving what He loves, and measuring everything in this world by the standard of His Word.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.