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

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.