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.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

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

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

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.