The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin...Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

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

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

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.

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

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.