To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

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

We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.