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.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

The love of God is like himself – equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution; our love is like ourselves – unequal, increasing, waning, growing, declining. His, like the sun, always the same in its light, though a cloud may sometimes interpose; ours, as the moon, has its enlargements and straightenings.

The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

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

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.