For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

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

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.

Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers.

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.