As among all the doctrines of the gospel, there is none opposed with more violence and subtlety than that concerning our regeneration by the immediate, powerful, effectual operation of the Holy Spirit of grace.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can withstand.

The duties God requires of us are not in proportion to the strength we possess in ourselves. Rather, they are proportional to the resources available to us in Christ. We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace. When we recognize it is impossible for us to perform a duty in our own strength, we will discover the secret of its accomplishment.

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

It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.

A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.