An humble soul looks upon Christ's righteousness as his only crown.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.

God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.