He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

To believe that He will preserve us is, indeed, a means of preservation. God will certainly preserve us, and make a way of escape for us out of the temptation, should we fall. We are to pray for what God has already promised. Our requests are to be regulated by His promises and commands. Faith embraces the promises and so finds relief.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and in the room thereof a home-bred idol of self-sufficiency set up, and the world persuaded to worship it. But that the building climb no higher, let all men observe how the word of God overthrows this babylonian tower.