We are dependent on God's power through every step of our redemption.

You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God