Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

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.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide in God's presence. Therefore they look to Christ as the one who bears the iniquity of their holy things, who adds incense to their prayers, gathers out all the weeds from their duties and makes them acceptable to God.