Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

Our enemies are on every side, so must our armour be.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.