While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.

Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.