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.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

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.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres to it, and helps it. Love works, and hope works, and all other graces, — self-denial, readiness to the cross, — they all work and help faith. But when we come to die, faith is left alone. Now, try what faith will do.

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.