A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

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.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

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 first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word