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.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

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.

The foundation of true holiness and true Christian worship is the doctrine of the gospel, what we are to believe. So when Christian doctrine is neglected, forsaken, or corrupted, true holiness and worship will also be neglected, forsaken, and corrupted.

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.