If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

It is the Spirit alone that can mortify sin; he is promised to do it, and all other means without him are empty and vain. How shall he, then, mortify sin that has not the Spirit? A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

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

On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

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