The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.

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

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.