And as men diversions increase from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan than they can withstand.

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love, shall ever pass for folly.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

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.

Temptation gains power by persistent solicitations that beget thoughts that make evil less serious

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.