The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.

Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.