It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.