As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace flow more fully and freely in its near approaches to the ocean of glory.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God, preserve my soul, and keep my heart and all its ways so that I will not be entangled." When this is true in our lives, a passing temptation will not overcome us. We will remain free while others lie in bondage.

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

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.