Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.