Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

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

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

There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God, and then of themselves - of God, in His greatness, glory, holiness, power, majesty, and authority; of ourselves, in our mean, abject, and sinful condition.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.