Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.

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.

I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of the week sufficient to prepare for their ministry, though they employ all the rest of the week in other studies. But your business is to trade with your spiritual abilities. ... A man may preach a very good sermon, who is otherwise himself; but he will never make a good minister of Jesus Christ, whose mind and heart are not always in the work. Spiritual gifts will require continual ruminating on the things of the Gospel in our minds.

I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.