Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

We need not borrow and take up sorrows upon use of the morrow, to make up our present load; as we read of daily bread, so of a daily cross, Luke ix. M, which we are bid to take, not to make.

Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood. They cost him dear, and that which is so hardly got shall not be easily lost. He that was willing to expend his Son's blood to gain them, will not deny his power to keep them.

We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.