Frequently renew settled and holy resolutions. A soldier unresolved to fight may be easily defeated...The weakness of our graces, the strength of our temptations, and the diligence of our spiritual enemies, require strong resolutions.

Paul was so much taken with Christ, that nothing sweeter than Jesus could drop from his lips and pen.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.

It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.

Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.

Without the heart it’s not worship, it’s a stage play.