Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

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.

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.

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

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

I will not judge a person to be spiritually dead whom I have judged formerly to have had spiritual life, though I see him at present in a swoon (faint)as to all evidences of the spiritual life. And the reason why I will not judge him so is this -- because if you judge a person dead, you neglect him, you leave him; but if you judge him in a swoon,(faint) though never so dangerous, you use all means for the retrieving of his life.

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