When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

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.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin...Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

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.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!