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

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

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 must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.