It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.

It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.