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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing... →
Leanness of body and soul may go together.
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built... →
All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.
After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
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