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

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul. And he that doth not feed on and thrive in the digestion of the food which he provides for others will scarce make it savoury unto them; yea, he knows not but the food he hath provided may be poison, unless he have really tasted of it himself. If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.