I did not hear what I should have listened to.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

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

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

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.