Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.

God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.

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

The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.

That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.