 All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less. |
| The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. |
| After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes. |
| Leanness of body and soul may go together. |
| 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 you. |
| The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it. |
| All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. |
| 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 vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh. |
| 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 house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. |
| I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. |
