Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

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.

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.