So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.

To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.

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

The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such as no hand of man can represent or shadow. It is the eye of faith alone that can see this King in his beauty. What else can contemplate on the untreated glories of his divine nature? Can the hand of man represent the union of his natures in the same person, wherein he is peculiarly amiable? What eye can discern the mutual communications of the properties of his different natures in the same person?

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

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.