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

The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him that overcomes; bid it listen and tell thee whether it cannot hear the shout of those crowned saints, as of those that are dividing the spoil, and receiving the reward of all their services and sufferings here on earth.