Sin

“The more room sin has in your hearts the less room Christ will have there.”

“Christ has opened your eyes to see the chief evil that you might be delivered from it.”

“Take heed of indulging yourselves in any sins which may provoke Him to depart from you.”

“Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.”

“The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.”

“Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.”

“No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison.”

“Oh cursed sin! It was you who slew my dear Lord! For your sake He underwent all this!”

“Sin brought in sweat, but now, not to sweat increases sin.”

“There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin.”

“All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the creation, cannot wash away one sin.”

“O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you 'little lower than the angels'; sin has made you little better than the devils.”

“Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world, peace with sin, and peace in sin.”

“The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.”

“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace.”

“God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.”

“Sin is conquered, though it still has a being within you.”

“The reign of sin in the heart is inconsistent with the love of Christ in the heart.”

“Satan turned Eve's eye to the apple, Achan's eye to the wedge of gold, Ahab's eye to Naboth's vineyard, and then what work did he make with them!”

“A little sin may damn a man's soul.”

“It is better to receive the greatest thieves into our houses, than vain thoughts into our hearts.”

“How averse are our souls to anything that is spiritual! How many excuses, pretences, delays will they make! To sin man needs no tutor; he can ride post to hell without a spur.”

“It is a sin in many Christians that they know not when to be silent. This is a great part of Christian prudence, to understand when to keep silence. It is much harder to learn to be silent than to learn to speak.”

“Sin goes in a disguise, and thence is welcome; like Judas, it kisses and kills; like Joab, it salutes and slays.”

“Never presume upon sin in hope of secrecy, for though thou mayest cover the candle of creatures with a bushel, yet thou canst not the glorious Sun of righteousness; nothing is hid from his sight.”

“Some sins of omission are like great men, that never go without followers.”

“The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.”

“Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.”

“For as the sun darts its beams upon a dunghill, and yet is no way defiled by it; so God decrees the permission of sin, yet is not the author of sin.”

“Many a lash in the dark doth conscience give the wicked.”

“As fish in the water love deep places and wells and are most frequently found there, so wicked men have a great love to carnal security and have no will to strive against the stream.”

“Most men are so far from making God their chief end, in their natural and civil actions, that, in these matters, God is not in all their thoughts.”

“Self love and pride were the first poison that the malice of Satan dropped into man's nature, and this is so strong and pestilent, that it has spread through the whole of mankind, and the whole in every man.”

“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”

“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”

“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”

“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”

“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go out the utmost sin in that kind.”

“Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also!”

“I do not understand how a man can be a true believer unto whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow, and trouble.”

“Think of the guilt of sin, that you may be humbled. Think of the power of sin, that you may seek strength against it.”

“There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction!”

“The pleasure of sin is soon gone but the sting remains!”

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

“Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.”

“What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath.”

“Our murmuring is the devil's music.”

“First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.”

“The law wounds, the gospel cures.”

“Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.”

“It is the greatest judgment in the world to be left to sin.”

“There is a great difference between a sheep which falls into the mire and a swine which delights to wallow in it.”

“Sin is the worst and most infectious plague in the world.”

“Be sure that you live not idly, but in some constant business of a lawful calling, so far as you have bodily strength. Idleness is a constant sin, and labour is a duty.”

“The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?”

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”

“The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.”

“One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner.”

“Take heed of little sins.”

“Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.”

“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”

“Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.”

“To sin because mercy abounds, is the devil's logic.”

“There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.”

“Think not the better of sin because it is in fashion.”

“It argues more grace to grieve for the sins of others than for our own.”

“I do not say that sin works for good to an impenitent person. No, it works for his damnation, but it works for good to them that love God.”

“God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.”

“There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.”

“In Adam we all suffered shipwreck, and repentance is the only plank left us after shipwreck to swim to heaven.”

“That preaching is to be preferred which makes the truest discovery of men's sins and shows them their hearts.”

“It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.”

“The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.”

“Many think they repent when it is not the offense but the penalty that troubles them.”

“Let them fear death who do not fear sin.”

“We may force our Lord to punish us, but we will never have to force Him to love us.”

“Sin is like a poison, which corrupts the blood, infects the heart, and without a sovereign Antidote, brings death. Such is the venomous nature of sin, it is deadly and damning.”

“It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.”

“God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.”

“Lusts within are worse than lions without.”

“Sin robs God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, and the soul of its happiness.”

“An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.”

“Discontent makes a breach in the soul, and, usually at this breach, the devil enters by a temptation and storms the soul.”

“A hard heart is a vessel for Satan. Just as God has two places he dwells in: heaven and a humble heart, so the devil has two places he dwells in: hell and a hard heart.”

“Sin is not only a defection, but a pollution. It is to the soul as rust is to gold, as a stain to beauty.”

“Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.”

“Compare sin with hell, and you shall see that sin is worse. Torment has its emphasis in hell, yet nothing there is as bad as sin. Hell is of God's making, but sin is none of His making. Sin is the devil's creature.”

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”

“The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.”

“Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, either led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.”

“There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.”

“All the devils in hell and tempters on earth could do us no injury if there were no corruption in our own natures.”

“Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.”

“Of two evils, choose neither.”

“There would be nobody to receive mercy if nobody were guilty.”

“Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.”

“Idleness and luxury are the devil's jackals, and find him abundant prey.”

“Since man ceases not to be sinful, it is a great blessing that Jehovah ceases not to be merciful.”

“Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.”

“I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love.”

“Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.”

“Willful ignorance is in itself willful sin, and the evil that comes of it is without excuse.”

“All men are negligent of their souls till grace gives them reason.”

“Do you feel yourself to be a lost, guilty sinner? Go straightway to the cross of Christ.”

“In the Red Sea of His own blood, our Redeemer has drowned the Pharaoh of our sins!”

“When we deal seriously with our sin, God will deal gently with us.”

“To injure our fellow men is sin, mainly because in so doing we violate the law of God.”

“Pardon of sin must ever be an act of pure mercy.”

“Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.”

“Once there was free will in paradise, and a terrible mess free will made there, for it turned Adam out of the garden.”

“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”

“There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.”

“Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself.”

“Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.”

“There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.”

“Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.”

“Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death.”

“Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.”

“Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place.”

“Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.”

“That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.”

“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”

“The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.”

“There is nothing in the world that renders a man more unlike to a saint, and more like to Satan, than to argue from God's mercy to sinful liberty; from divine goodness to licentiousness.”

“True penitential confession is joined with reformation. He that does not forsake his sin, as well as confess it, forsakes the benefit of his confession.”

“Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.”

“There is the seed of all sins, of the vilest and worst of sins, in the best of men.”

“Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.”

“I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.”

“Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life hath been nothing but enmity to this God.”

“Every circumstance in every sin will then be as a dagger at your heart.”

“Thou hast an art above God Himself, if thou canst fetch any true pleasure out of unholiness.”

“I had rather be a sober heathen than a drunken Christian.”

“God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.”

“Do not say that you love Christ, so long as you can lay those sins in your bosom, which plucked His heart out of His bosom!”

“The pleasures of sin must needs be short, because life cannot be long, and they both end together.”

“Cease to pray, and you will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy, but also to prevent sin.”

“The sheep may fall into a ditch, but it is the swine that wallows in it! Take heed of deliberate sins!”

“Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.”

“The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.”

“No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.”

“To tempt another is worse than to sin thyself. When you tempt, you do that which you cannot undo with your repentance.”

“While the Christian commits a sin he hates it; whereas the hypocrite loves it while he forbears it.”

“Discouragement itself is a sin, another sin, a Gospel sin; now my sin against the Law, is not just cause why I should sin against the Gospel.”

“He is well qualified for us; but a sinner out of Christ has no qualification for Christ but sin and misery.”

“Wicked thoughts are deadly evils.”

“Whatever afflictions, curses, and punishments are in the world, they are ordained by God for the sin of man.”

“Lord, especially forgive my sins of omission.”

“Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things; first, it will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour; secondly, it will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace.”

“There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in this world.”

“It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.”

“Old neglected wounds are often mortal, always dangerous.”

“So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.”

“The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins; the indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.”

“The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it; the course of the world takes away the shame of it.”

“The seed of every sin is in every heart.”

“A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ; in Him alone we can see the desert of our iniquities.”

“Lack of a due sense of the sinfulness of our best works leads to dreams of self-righteousness and self-justification.”

“Selfishness is the making a man's self his own center, the beginning and end of all he does.”

“The best duties of unbelievers are but white lies.”

“As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend, so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.”

“Sin carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind; mortification must chiefly be directed to the affections.”

“Never was sin seen to be more abominably sinful and full of provocation than when the burden of it was upon the shoulders of the Son of God. Would you, then, see the true demerit of sin? Take the measure of it from the cross of Christ.”

“Cursed is the person who encourages you to come to Christ and allows you to think that you can still indulge one sin in your life.”

“Wherefore this was the counsel of Zophar to Job: "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands towards him; If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.”

“Self-love is the greatest enemy to true Christian love, and pride is the fountain of self-love, because it is impossible that, in this life, there should be an exact correspondence between the thoughts and ways of Christians.”

“Isn’t it also a great evil for someone to possess a large estate and yet not know how to use it for God?”

“Ten thousand talents is a figurative speech, to express how great a debt sin is; and do you call this a pleasure?”

“A true Christian will not hide his sins, but lay them open, the more to abase himself before God.”

“As soon as the heart is broken, under a sense of sin, pride and self-conceit vanish away, and the more broken-hearted that a person is, the less proud.”

“He that delays his conversion doth, as it were, pawn his soul into the devil's hands, and saith, If he do not fetch it again at such a day, it is his for ever.”

“For a man to shed the blood of his brother, is murder: to shed the blood of hundreds, is murder on a large scale.”

“I would only observe that place in Ezek. 9, God sends out his judgments, and destroys the city; but before, he sets a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.”

“You know wounds will stink: but [there is] no stink like that of sin to the broken-hearted man.”

“This then being the work of the ministry—to divide between men and their lusts, to part these two old friends—it is no wonder that it meets with so much opposition.”

“God lets men run on so far in sin, that they do unman themselves, that he may proclaim to all the world that we are unable to do anything of ourselves at first towards our recovery without a superior principle.”

“Does not God command thee to come to Christ? and is not thy delay a greater act of disobedience than the complaint of thy sinfulness can be of humility?”

“Does sin rob you of all your liberty before God, and of all your desire and spiritual life?”

“But on the contrary, if the Lord do let thee lye in the filth of thy sin, it is an Argument that he never set his heart upon thee.”

“O but we have need to be redeemed from ourselves, rather than from the devil and the world.”

“Sin, as a desolating waste, has ravaged all the field of human nature.”

“Nothing in the whole nature of man, no power or faculty of the soul, is fallen under greater disorder and depravation by the entrance of sin than our affections are.”

“We are apt to burn incense to our own net, to attribute all we have to our own second causes.”

“God has treasured up wrath for the wicked—as they have treasured up sin; and God will give them that which they have so much deserved, and which He has prepared for them.”

“Such as are without the gospel are in darkness and unbelief, and are hastening forward towards the regions of eternal darkness; and they do not know where they are going.”

“They advance the colours of Satan, blasphemies and lies, in the very face of God; as if they sent challenges to heaven, and dared their Maker to the combat.”

“We usually weep for the loss of some great good; by sin we have lost the favour of God.”

“Even if sin did not bear such bitter fruit, if death did not grow on this tree, a gracious soul would forsake it out of love to God.”

“Ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life.” Not one soul would be saved if left to his own will.”

“There was then, in the pure nature of man, no inclination to sin, no concupiscence of what is evil, no repugnancy to the law of God.”

“It is the perverse, wicked stubbornness and hardness of the human heart that brings about such inveterate sinning.”

“In fine, the law of nature itself was not without a threatening, and that of eternal death.”

“One of them was over righteous, and the other wicked over much.”

“Charity envieth not.” Envy is the seed of all contention, and self-love brings it forth.”

“If you find not the smartness of the gospel, and the doctrine of grace laying this restraint upon the heart, ye are yet in your sins.”

“You have seen drunkards clothed with rags, and brought to miserable ends: adulterers severely punished, their names and estates, souls and bodies blasted, and wasted by a secret, but just stroke of God.”

“Afflictions are like pinching frosts, which will search us; where we are most unsound, we shall soonest complain, and where most corruptions lie, we shall most shrink.”

“For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.”

“Nature, simply considered, cannot raise itself above itself to actions which are spiritual and of a higher order and nature.”

“When there was a spot in the bodies of men, they were to come to the Priest to discern whether their spot were the spot of Leprosie, or no.”

“Wickedness in a great or learned man, is like poison given in wine, the more operative and deadly.”

“How shall I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" is a sure check when tempted to seek help from other than our God.”

“The mildest weapons (which false zeal never employs alone, except where it is checked by a superior power)—are calumny, contempt, and hatred.”

“An offence against the person of a king, is the crime of high treason, it enhances and aggravates the crime.”

“As their sin is most offensive unto God here—so His wrath will certainly come upon them with the greatest severity hereafter!”

“He has followed us with mercies, reproofs, and expostulations, and yet we persist in iniquity.”

“And in consideration hereof they must make a conscience of all sin both in thought, word, and deed through the whole course of their lives.”

“The confession of the wicked is extorted, like the confession of a man upon a rack.”

“To leave God and return to sin is tacitly to asperse the Deity.”

“The sinning soul behoved to die; and imperfect righteousness could not be accepted in part, more than it could be in whole, because such righteousness is not righteousness indeed, but sinful want of conformity to the law.”

“Here is the case then, man came under the covenant of works, wherein death was threatened in case of transgression; now the covenant is broken.”

“Anger in the soul is like mettle in a horse, good if it is well managed.”

“The first Adam is the father of all that perish; the second Adam is the father of all that shall be saved.”

“But if there is anything else that your soul is set on as the highest good, that’s your god, and it’s worse than bowing the knee.”

“The pride of angels and men was but the rising up to a height, or climbing up a steep to the pinnacle of glory, that they might catch the lower fall.”

“Can you love Christ — and delight in sin, which crucified your Lord?”

“So a man bewitched with sin had rather lose God, Christ, heaven, and his own soul—than part with his sin.”

“They give Satan an advantage; they make the work of repentance more difficult; they make a man's life a burden, and they render death to be very terrible unto the soul.”

“The heart, as it is by nature hard, stupid, and impenetrable, so it remains, and so will remain, until God, as was said, bruiseth it with his hammer, and melts it with his fire.”

“The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things; who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?" Sad is the blinding power of sin.”

“A man may know his other debts—but he cannot number his spiritual debts.”

“And are you not by your sins, exposed unto the vengeance of eternal fire?”

“It was as one deserving of death that Abel came, as one who felt himself under the sentence, “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.” He brought with him the visible symbol of this, in the lamb which he laid upon the altar.”

“Pride, idleness, wantonness, are three worms that usually breed of plenty.”

“Therefore, ALL THE VANITY, THAT IS IN WORLDLY THINGS, IS ONLY IN RESPECT OF THE SIN AND FOLLY OF MAN.”

“O let heaven and earth stand amazed at the condescension of the Bridegroom, and the folly of sinners in refusing such a match!”

“Can a man that is dead, or deadly-wounded, live? that is, perform the actions of life with delight constantly, for that is to live.”

“It is in our souls, as the soul is in the body, as it were tota in toto, et tota in qualibet parte , the whole of sin is in the whole soul, and in every part too.”

“As therefore a potter breaks a vessel that hath poison put into it by another, though it be his own vessel, so God justly destroys his own creature when corrupted by the devil.”

“A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart before he can be duly humbled for it.”

“A regenerate person abhors sin not only for the curse but for the contagion.”

“To return to sin gives the devil more power over a man that ever.”

“Innumerable are the reasonings of the hearts of the sons of men on this account; we know not the thoughts of our own souls herein, how vile they are.”

“The sight and knowledge of the great God is to the sinful man the most dreadful thing in the world; and is that which makes confession of sin so rare and wonderful a thing.”

“It is naturally true that as we are of the earth, so we are earthly and have our spirits engaged to the things of the earth.”

“Alas! it will be the ruin of thousands; some have sucked in such prejudicate opinions and vile notions of religion, and its professors, as make them irreconcileable enemies to it.”

“Did I suspect the existence of such latent virulence, such deep-seated depravity?”

“Jehoshaphat was found guilty in joining himself to wicked men too much, the Prophet comes and saith to him, Wouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord?”

“Some men are strong to drink wine; they are tubs and hogsheads, as Ambrose calls them, rather than men.”

“If it is such a foul, spreading, staining spot, how is it that men and women cannot see it for what it is?”

“A man's name is of more worth, and he who takes away the good name of another sins more than if he had taken the the wares out of his shop!”

“But if we have this for a foundation truth, that there is more mercy in Christ than sin in us, there can be no danger in thorough dealing.”

“Obstinate spirits show that they are not so much as smoking flax.”

“But Christ will be no underling to any base affection, and therefore, where there is allowance of ourselves in any sinful lust, it is a sign the keys were never given up to Christ to rule us.”

“Some God gives up to a profane spirit in the midst of the means, a fearful brand.”

“God will not always strive with us, but will give us up to our own courses, to live and die under the dominion of the devil, and so will glorify himself in our confusion.”

“Now this I say, Those that are in the greatest torment of conscience for their sin, they are in a better Case than those that go on most conceitedly, and boasting in their sin.”

“The law says, 'Give me unsullied love', and points to your defects.”

“Thus you deal with Christ and thrust Him away from you, though He comes upon the most welcome errand, and ought to be received with all readiness and thankfulness.”

“To be saved from sin, from hell, from the wrath of God, from eternal damnation, what is like it?”

“Wretched priests, that are indeed the worst diseases; allowing in precept, and approving in practice, the riot of drunkenness, or the heat of lustfulness, or the baseness of covetise, or the frenzy of contention.”

“Indeed, in the estate of innocency, Adam by creation received grace for himself and his posterity; and in his fall he transgressed not only for himself, but for all his posterity.”

“As for such as say that they have the pardon of their sins and yet live in them still, they deceive themselves and have no faith at all.”

“Holy sorrow is the rhubarb to purge out the ill humours of the soul.”

“David acknowledges his birth-sin: Ì was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me' (Ps. 51.5).”

“They turn from swearing to slandering, from profuseness to covetousness, like a sick man that turns from a tertian ague13 to a quartan.”

“There are some, yea, many, of mankind, who are still under the broken Covenant of Works.”

“For we are under great wrath, and crucified the Lord of Glory.”

“Thy own conscience, that tells thee thou hast sinned, summons thee before the great and righteous Judge, who demands full satisfaction for the violation of his laws, and thy offences committed against him.”

“But where wrath and anger are indulged, all relationships are embittered; those that should be helps, become as thorns in our eyes and goads in our sides.”

“There are many atheists, whose whole care is to preserve life.”

“It is the very A B C's of Christianity, that a man should know his right place in the sight of God, and understand his deserts.”

“There is no sin in the law; but the knowledge of sin by the law, is the knowledge of a contrary by its contrary.”

“He who does not mourn, has surely lost the use of his reason.”

“We are to encounter accursed and damned enemies; therefore, if they begin to fall before the Spirit in us, they shall fall.”

“And if there were no devil to suggest, yet sinful thoughts would arise from within us, though none were cast in from without.”

“If your friend is wicked, though he were your friend on earth, you will cease to be his friend in heaven.”

“A rebellion is always a desire of imposing laws and conditions upon those against whom the rebellion is raised.”

“There's much difference between the sins that are in wicked men, and the sins that are in the Saints.”

“There is an affliction upon you and that is grievous; but there is a murmuring heart within, and that is more grievous! 2.”

“Christ says that even infidels, who refused to believe God's word, shall be judged by it.”

“There are such in the world, that will so visibly act the devil's part, that they would debauch your consciences with the most horrid perjuries, perfidiousness, and impiety, that they may triumph over your miserable souls.”

“If a man were going to poison or drown himself, would he not be his friend who should hinder hint from doing it?”

“All the secret counsels of his heart, his over-reaching and going beyond poor souls, the utmost and extremity of that malice and envy he acted all with, shall be detected, and thou a poor believer shalt be a judge of all these.”

“They will glory in their oaths as a genteel accomplishment, and swear, and say they will swear.”

“And the wormwood that grows in and about the banks of that infernal lake (the wrath of God), was not so bitter to Solomon’s taste as was his sin that grew out of his own heart.”

“Manasseh's affliction brought him to humiliation, but Judas' sin brought him to desperation.”

“They do not confess all; they confess the pence but not the pounds.”

“The presentation of truth, however forcible and clear, even though that truth were the grace of God, will only exasperate the unconverted man.”

“How can they be but unholy, who are under the covenant of works? for there is no communion with God in the way of that covenant now; so sanctifying influences are stopt, and they must wither and pine away in their iniquity.”

“Now that is no righteousness, which doth not fully answer the law which is the rule of it: for the least defect destroys its nature, and turns it into unrighteousness.”

“You are cursed idolators, because you set your hearts upon your riches.”

“Know that you are lost and undone in yourselves, consider the impossibilities you lie under to escape his wrath.”

“But all this time you may be walking in the broad way which leads to destruction.”

“Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together.”

“How often does the poor soul cry out, 'O Lord, how gladly would I serve you—but vain thoughts will not let me!”

“One would wonder that any soul that knows what it is to deal with such an infinite holy God as the Lord is, one would wonder what should uphold the soul, seeing it is so defiled, and has nothing but spots in everything!”

“Good men look not on sin as a trifle; they have no excuse for it, and urge no palliation.”

“We should mourn more for sin than for the loss of friends or estate.”

“Therefore they keep the lid on the pot and peacefully live on in their sins, aggravating all this by eating and drinking unworthily.”

“So I may say to every soul, wash thy heart from thy spots; thou wilt wash thy face and hands dayly, O that dayly there might be a washing of thy heart!”

“You may think when you have sinned, it may quickly be made up again: Every Fool can sin, can be drunk, be unclean, and wicked; but when you have sinned, how will you get it away?”

“The principles of these contrary thoughts are like Jacob and Esau; they struggle in the same womb, and oftentimes Esau will come first forth, and for a while seem to carry the birthright.”

“I am little aware of what is yet in my heart; I know that after all this, I am still capable of distrust and repining.”

“Why is he punished with death, who clips the king's coin or defaces his statue—but because it is an abuse offered to the person of the king?”

“In this little time we do that, that in a long time we cannot undo again.”

“Men naturally are in the house of bondage, they are enslaved to Satan.”

“What a devil then is sin? it is the worst of devils; it is worse than all devils; those that are devils sin hath made them so; nor could anything else have made them devils but sin.”

“Sin, when it is finished, will bring forth death, not only temporal—but eternal.”

“Pride is a sin that will put the soul upon the worst of sins.”

“I think that in these days God punishes many men's former wickednesses, by giving them up to soul-ruining errors .”

“Where this striving and resistance is in mind and heart, there is the Spirit, for else all would go full sway with corruption.”

“This sorrow, humility, and shame are not merely for a wicked life—but for a sinful nature; not only for actual sin—but also for original sin.”

“And how can you look for any favor at God's hands, when by your own confession you have done as others have done and given consent to their wickedness?”

“He surveys the past of his existence, and it seems as if he had been dwelling in a tomb, wrapped within the winding-sheet of death.”

“The second remedy against this device of Satan is, seriously to consider, That there is nothing in the world that so provokes God to be wroth and angry, as men's taking encouragement from God's goodness and mercy—to do wickedly.”

“That is, the foolishness of some men, is that they take pleasure in their sins; for their sins are their foolishness, and the folly of their soul lies in their countenancing of this foolishness.”

“Who will be earnest for a physician, who thinks it is but a trivial disease?”

“Therefore, as often as he sins, he breaks the covenant by renewal, remains subject to its curse, and increases it time and again.”

“Look what the difference is between the Scar of a wound that is almost healed, and a filthy putrified sore in the flesh; that difference there is between the sin of the Saints, and the sins of other men.”

“Cursed sin! you were the knife that stabbed him: you the sword that pierced him.”

“But this is all hidden from the world; they have no guide in prosperity —but hurry on as they are instigated by their blinded passions, and are perpetually multiplying mischiefs and miseries to themselves!”

“He is in search of many things of which sin has robbed Him; affection, homage, allegiance, reverence, obedience; but worship,--the worship of man, and of man's earth, He is specially seeking and claiming.”

“What a weathercock is the mind of man! especially of the vulgar and the temporizers!”

“Everybody that hath but common sense knows that this man is in the broad way to death, yet he laughs at his own damnation.”

“God feeds the sinner, keeps off evils from him, bemiracles him with mercy; but the sinner not only forgets God’s mercies, but abuses them.”

“Again, You have the seeds of all corruptions in you; and is there any way to be rid of every sin—but by thriving in every grace?”

“It is not in our nature to humble ourselves to walk with God; we have an opposition to it and all parts of it: no angels or men can persuade us to it.”

“We are all under the sanctions of the covenant of works, and we are in desperate need of a covenant of grace.”

“The sinner may continue to be utterly carnal, with his personal nature unchanged.”

“It is in the region of the law that we all draw our first breath.”

“The violence and corruption of mankind abounded, and even the sons of God were taken with the bait of sensual delights.”

“Will not my cooler thoughts correct these hasty resentments, and therefore were it not better to check them now?”

“Simon Magus was a religious professor, yet was in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity.”

“But what if God will not give you a heart, but will harden your heart and give you up to yourself?”

“Therefore it is not a slight humiliation that will serve the turn, but our hearts must be wrought unto a perfect hatred and leaving of all sins; for if this be not, we are not sufficiently humbled as yet.”

“The boasting in our selves, in regard of our services or sufferings, makes both us, and all that we do or suffer, to be vile and base in the eyes of God and man.”

“He that mourns not now, while the door of mercy is open, must mourn for sin when the door of mercy is shut.”

“There is nothing in the world more uneasy than the heart of a wicked man made to listen to spiritual instruction, until, like a thief, he puts out the candle so that he may sin with less restraint.”

“It is as if a physician prescribed a good remedy—but the patient would not take it.”

“And, being a sinner, he cannot yield perfect, actual obedience to God's law.”

“Is it your grief—that you fall short in your obedience unto Christ?”

“You need not teach him to sin, but only leave him to himself, and he will soon shame his mother.”

“Again, if the Lord does thus carefully provide for His children all kinds of benefits, what a wonderful wickedness is this for men to get their living by ungodly means, as usury, carding, dicing, and such like exercises?”

“The sin of our nature is not only a privation of good but an infusion of evil.”

“And surely, if we have outsinned the devils, it may well put us to the blush.”

“And there can be no transgression of a positive precept, without the violation of that eternal law that is written in his heart.”

“Innocent Adam had a larger stock of inherent grace than any of the saints in this life, and yet he lost it.”

“He lies unto God: he speaks lies in the presence, and to the very face of God.”

“Some who are washing themselves in the Thames River go a little way at first, and then venture a little further and further, and at length, they are over their heads and ears.”

“The depressions, therefore, of the new nature arise not from any essential defect in that nature--for it is incorruptible--but from the sin that dwells in us.”

“Many complain they cannot remember; here is the reason, God punishes their carelessness in hearing— with forgetfulness .”

“He looks upon scorners as spitting upon Christ, and worldlings as preferring Barabbas before Christ—and this makes him groan.”

“Therefore, the reason why the people of God many times are divided and not united is because they are carnal .”

“A good object, if it lights upon a bad soul, hardens the heart; for they that are not bettered by religion, under the means, are so much the worse by their use.”

“It is their constant work to feed their lusts, to starve their souls; and the design of their master is, that the one may ruin the other.”

“No sin against God can be little, because it is against the great God of heaven and earth; but if the sinner can find out a little God, it may be easy to find out little sins.”

“The devil, nor men of the world, can kill thy righteousness, or love to it but by thy own hand; or separate that and thee asunder without thy own act.”

“It is ordinary with man to charge God in his complaints in the time of affliction.”

“Reader, perchance you fondly reason, The law is broken, but the Curse will not fall on me.”

“All have been “ covered with a cloud” in the day of the fierce anger of the Lord!”

“There is spiritual drunkenness, spiritual adultery, and a man may be a liar that calls God his Father when he is not, or that calls himself a Christian, and is not.”

“Instead of being as gods, they became as the beasts that perish.”

“Idleness is hateful in any—but most abominable and intolerable in ministers ; and sooner or later none shall pay so dear for it as such.”

“Sin and Satan do sometimes work more violently and more strongly in the souls of saints than at other times.”

“You prefer a soul-murdering lust to the glorious Bridegroom, like the Jews, who preferred Barabbas unto Jesus.”

“The daily language of the penitent soul is this, "Lord, when will you heal the maladies of my soul?”

“To hate sin is his nature; and that sin deserves death, is also the natural and inseparable property, consequent, and demerit of it.”

“The point therefore to be proved now is not, that the corruption is conveyed, but that the guilt of the act of his first sin is also derived down to us.”

“Would men be covetous, be fornicators, drunkards, &c., if they believed that the wrath of God comes upon such?”

“They who will not confess their sin as David did, that they may be pardoned, shall confess their sin as Achan did, that they may be stoned.”

“Thus stands the natural man under the curse; it is upon him, it is round about him; go where he will, there is no shifting of it, all his days he wades through these waters; he is in the deep mire, where there is no firm standing.”

“I deny not but finall unbeleef hath an aggravation that it is the nearest barre and iron gate between the sinner and the only Saviour of sinners, but yet the putting of such a barre is a sin against the Law.”

“The threatening runs thus: In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die: and yet we read that Adam lived nine hundred years, and more, after this peremptory sentence.”

“We would not yield to all the passages of salvation; but when he was beforehand with us, and offered many sweet motions, yet we loved our sins better than our souls, and so repelled all.”

“It would far better secure the name of God from scandal and reproach, than for you to name the name of Christ, and yet not to depart from iniquity.”

“But since the first endeavour in paradise succeeded ill, there hath nothing gone well since.”

“The barrenness with which the earth is cursed, in not bringing forth good fruit, and its abounding with briars and thorns — are both as rods for the scourging of sinful man.”

“And the truth is, that although sin and the soul are inseparable till death, yet sin rather cleaves to the soul than the soul to it.”

“Take heed of giving thyself liberty of committing one sin, for that will lead thee to another; till, by an ill custom, it become natural.”

“Hast thou not load enough already? but wilt thou add unbelief, which is as black as all thy other sins put together?”

“There is this strength in sin in the soul, that all the terrors in the world will not breed a divorce between sin and the soul.”

“Adam had more advantage to maintain his station than any of you.”

“Sin not only left us prostrate, with no means to soar: but it fixed an intervening gulf, which unaided man could never pass.”

“The deceitfulness of sin lays hold on something or other that lust in the mind stays upon with delectation, and so corrupts the whole frame of spirit which began the duty.”

“As God will deliver his people from temporal danger , so from spiritual danger , as from sin , and from hell .”

“The human mind is weak and full of darkness by reason of sin.”

“And if you will be ungodly and vicious to please them, you sell your souls, your conscience, and your God, to please them.”

“Other slaves are brought to correction, but sin’s slaves are without repentance, and are brought to condemnation.”

“Every individual in the human race, or even every individual in Judea, did not seek Him.”

“Accordingly, upon man's sinning, the curse seized him; and continuing under that covenant, it is still working in him, till it works his body and soul asunder.”

“I have nothing to do with Christ, nor he with me; for I am a sinner, a lost sinner." Nay, upon that very ground there is a relation between him and you.”

“God's vial of wrath will be always dropping upon a wicked man.”

“Sin betrays us into the devil's hands—who writes all his laws in blood.”

“Christ is a master, and sin is a master; yea, and masters are they so opposite, that he that at all shall cleave to the one shall by the other be counted his enemy.”

“Lord, we are being forced to do what is contrary to our nature; we were never made to be serviceable to the lusts of men.”

“Ah, who would endure an ocean of torture for a drop of sensual pleasure, or for a few bitter-sweets?”

“You will say, you are not able to come away; but if you were willing, you would not be allowed to remain in your captive state.”

“They are held busy, and even busy working their own ruin, kicking against the pricks, digging for the grave as for hid treasures.”

“Ignorance is a branch of ungodliness; and I name it in the first place because it is the cause of all our disorder in worship and conversation.”

“All men can see their outward blessings — but they have no eyes to behold the inward curses which lie under those outward blessings.”

“For if sin be so dreadful a thing as to wring the heart of the Son of God, how shall a poor wretched sinner be able to bear it?”

“No devil, or bad companion, ever leads us into such wickedness as our own hearts.”

“God has his proper place then, and the sinner his—God has the throne, and the sinner is in the dust.”

“Was not Christ charged with as great sins as thine can be when he was upon the cross?”

“Earth,—the whole earth,—is the guilty region, on which the fire should be poured.”

“If guilt remains, then punishment will ensue—God's eternal wrath in hell.”

“When God would show the brand of a wicked man, He instances the sin of murmuring in a more special manner.”

“But some will say, If I should now set myself to turn, I fear my case is desperate, and there is no hope, I am so hardened in evil.”

“There remains one case of conscience: are we bound to confess our sins to men?”

“There is a deadly antipathy between the scorpion and the crocodile; such should there be between the heart and sin.”

“What penalty came upon mankind because of the breach of God's moral law?”

“Another form of "estranging ourselves, and aposta tizing from God" is to give up real Christianity and become a member of a false religion or cult.”

“Man had a conditional promise hereof, in the covenant of works; but the condition being broken, the benefit promised was lost; heaven's gates were shut against Adam, and all his natural seed.”

“Many leave off to be drunkards, and fall in with covetousness.”

“In vain we garnish and adorn this sinful and corrupt humanity with the external beauties of holiness--it is but an embalmed corpse.”

“That sin which I so often cherish, this pride, this envy, unbelief, and hypocrisy, this covetousness of mind was that which put Christ into such torment.”

“All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under Heaven.”

“The tongue is said to set the whole course of nature on fire: the word in the original is the wheel of nature.”

“The law is perfectly holy; but this strict rule discovers the crookedness that is in man's heart.”

“The minister's work is to preach against men's sins, which are as dear to them as their right eye—and they cannot endure this.”

“The Condition of this world is such, as indeed, it is not fit to have a Saint in it without spots.”

“But, if the heart gives up the door, lusts in vile troops will enter, and do murderous work.”

“When every lust, corruption, or passion, as anger, envy, displeasure, at this or that person or thing, can divert the mind from compliance with the proposal of spiritual things that is made unto it, we are carnal.”

“As your sins are nearest to yourselves, so are your graces; and as you know more evil by yourselves than others know, so you know more good by yourselves.”

“Ludi praebent semina nequitiae [Plays furnish the seeds of wickedness].”

“There is such a power and efficacy in the blood of Christ, as is sufficient to cleanse all sorts of sinners from all sorts of sins.”

“For till the Lord gives this special illumination whereby a man sees his own misery in himself and his great need of Christ’s righteousness, Christ is a hidden treasure unto him.”

“The more they are beaten with the hammer of God’s word, the harder they are.”

“Pharaoh was more troubled for the frogs and river of blood than for his sin.”

“Affliction only reaches the body, but sin goes further: it poisons the fancy, disorders the affections.”

“This sin contained in it contempt of God, rebellion against him, and downright apostasy from him, going over to the devil's side.”

“Our sins had slain Him, shed His blood, and brought Him down to the grave!”

“Just so, many do not possess salvation—but remain secure; they presume all is well, never seriously meditating whether they have oil or not.”

“Sin transformed our nature into a wild, beastly, viperous, selfish thing.”

“Admire at this you that have not been guilty of one sin but of millions .”

“An erroneous mind is as odious to God as a wicked life ; and why should it not be so to us also?”

“This aggravating of our sins will make them more vile unto us, and us more humble in the sight of them.”

“We easily contract contagion and taint one from another, and learn to be carnal and worldly.”

“Will you also refuse life and happiness, by going on in your sin of not loving Christ?”

“How can a poor sinful worm of the dust like ourselves pardon our sins?”

“But the Saints when they sin, they are put upon the seeking after Christ, and praising of him so much the more.”

“The stubborn son must be stoned till he dies; and the prodigal must be famished out of all; nothing else, I say, will do.”

“His own sins stink, and so doth the sins of all the world to him.”

“Hereby we thus discover the distinction between the commission of sin by the unconverted and the power of indwelling corruption as it strives with grace in the converted.”

“O that day! when shall that day come that my soul shall never sin more against that God that I do love?”

“And what a company of most miserable wretches have we in this world?”

“If your vileness had not been so great, his sufferings had not been so many.”

“If you see a man whose affections are set inordinately on any thing here below, it is easy to discern how he goes off from his native worth, and debaseth himself therein.”

“Indeed, in his solemn account of the judgment, in Matthew 25, Jesus Christ mentions no sins but those of omission.”

“I felt that if God were to forgive me all my past sins, I should again destroy my soul, and that in less than a day’s time.”

“He that will defraud, forswear, bribe, oppress, serve the time, use, abuse all men, all things, swallow any wickedness, cannot escape riches.”

“And, indeed, their being dead in sin is the cause of their living in sin; and their living in sin, or having a life of sin, is the cause of their walking in sin.”

“And it is as certain that we all once were in that condition of nature, and so of wrath, as sure as we are men.”

“For, first, in the mind is such an impotency as whereby it is unable to think or approve of anything that is truly good.”

“But common sinners are in a manner wholly brutified; they do not act rationally but are carried away by the violence of their lusts and passions.”

“Paul, the prince of the apostles, who was to be God's ensignbearer to carry his name before the Gentiles and kings, was to have his heart more deeply lanced by repentance.”

“Sin gives a dash in the wine of our comforts; it digs our grave (Rom. 5.12).”

“It seems almost as if man would thrust God aside, take the reins of government out of His hands and be to himself a god.”

“The covenant being made with Adam for all mankind, the curse behoved to fall on the breakers according to the threatening, by virtue of the truth and justice of God.”

“There is indeed a sovereign virtue in the blood of Christ to pardon sin, but thy soul cannot have the benefit of it, while it remains under the dominion of this sin.”

“A hard heart is neither melted with promises nor broken with threatenings.”

“The world, it may be, smiles upon thee; it may be that it frowns; but what of either of these, while God is angry with thee every day?”

“Lusts grow licentious and unruly; and because they usurp God's place in the heart, therefore God suffers it; always it ends ill, in shame and judgment.”

“Oh what a thing is this, that a man on earth should love Christ no more than the devils in Hell?”

“To be truly sensible of sin is to sorrow for displeasing of God; to be afflicted that he is displeased by us more than that he is displeased with us.”

“Christ hath fiery eyes that will pierce through and through thee, will see a great deal of difference between the sin of one, and the sin of the others.”

“To be sorry for that thy nature is with sin depraved, and that through this depravity thou art deprived of ability to do what the Word and thy holy mind doth prompt thee to, is to be sorry after a godly sort.”

“Had Joseph been familiar with his mistress in a wanton sporting manner, he might in time have been drawn to commit immorality with her.”

“Though he will graciously tend and maintain the least spark of true grace, yet where he finds not the spark of grace but opposition to his Spirit striving with them, his wrath, once kindled, shall burn to hell.”

“So when a wicked man falls into some grievous sin, which his conscience frowns upon him and lashes him for, he looks out for a shelter, which in all his peaceable wickedness he never did.”

“There is such a thirst raised in the soul, that nothing can quench it but the blood of Christ!”

“It's true, the Lord will not charge these spots upon thy soul that art in Christ; yet he doth expect that thou shouldst be humbled for them.”

“Seventhly, sin is more opposite to mans good than affliction, because sin brings guilt upon the soul.”

“Did Christ sweat clots of blood at it, and do you make light of it?”

“Look we therefore to our sins, the curse and wrath due unto them, and all as laid on him.”

“I say this text of Scripture in Numbers clearly holds forth that the Lord brings the plague upon men for this sin of murmuring; he does it in kingdoms and families, and on particular persons.”

“Thy very being seems withered and hollow, even when mirth is flushing the cheek, and fond visions of earthly gaiety are luring thee onward.”

“And now, Christians, think what a sin, what a shame, what a folly it is—that you should have so little love unto Jesus Christ!”

“The lusts of the flesh, are the pleasures of the world; which are all of them suited to gratify the sensual and fleshly part of man.”

“Your meat will then be turned into your bowels, and will be as the gall of asps within you.”

“Flesh is evidently evil dispositions and inclinations unto evil which dwell in a man, and which as a root hath fruits.”

“But you will say again, If I could once get thither, I had no cause to fear, I should never fall if I were once in heaven; but I fear the vileness of my own heart, I fear I shall be defiled with my corruptions and by Satan.”

“Why should any man’s flesh be unclean, or his garments spotted, and so detestable and to be hated, seeing they are the good creatures of God?”

“How desperate is that thief who robs in the very place where his fellow hangs in chains.”

“In good earnest begin this work, and you will soon find that you are carnal, sold under sin, and that all former views of your lost estate were very defective.”

“In a garden Adam sinned, and therefore in a garden Christ was buried.”

“Under the weight of 'rejected blood' the unbelieving sinner perishes.”

“And how can men, who dwell in the outermost parts of the earth, come to Jerusalem, to offer sacrifice for every sin, and every pollution, in order to avoid the curse?”

“It is better to have no books, and depart from iniquity, than to have a thousand, and not to be bettered in my soul thereby. 2.”

“No more God's free men, nor our own men, but slaves; and the rattling of the chains of divers lusts upon us are evidences of it.”

“His iron-bands and chains are upon thee in the prison-house, how canst thou escape?”

“Error on outward points is only a skin-deep disease—error about the cross is disease at the heart.”

“He will combat with all sin, though he cannot conquer one as he should, and as he desires.”

“He that will not be rich in Christ, must be poor and condemned still in the first Adam.”

“The weight of sin is taken off from you, and in the eye of the law transferred to the mighty Sufferer on Calvary.”

“The saints have God's picture drawn in their hearts: a man cannot abuse the picture of Caesar, without some reflection upon Caesar's person.”

“One man sins against God, and what hath he to cover his sins?”

“Thus though sin may be pardoned, yet the more we sin, the more hardly we shall repent, the longer we shall want joy; or, it may be, go all our lifetime mourning without comfort in such a case.”

“Because of these, God’s wrath comes on the disobedient." These are such as do not yield obedience unto the law of God—but live in and allow themselves the practice of known sins, and the neglect of known duties.”

“The more lazy a Christian’s desires are, the more lively his corruptions.”

“The more grace acts in the soul—the more sin withers and dies in the soul.”

“Thus like as by assuming the likeness of sinful flesh, he killed the sin in our flesh; so by taking these our enmities and animosities in his flesh, he slew and abolished them; and as his death was the death of death, so of these.”

“If ever the devil was abroad, and the malice of hell in the hearts of men, it was at that day.”

“But the sin of him therein is proper to himself, and he shall answer for it all at the last day; when the angels shall be judged, he must bear the load of it.”

“All creatures in heaven and earth do the will of the Creator, except man and the devil and his angels; for the sun, the moon, and the stars, they keep that course which God has appointed them.”

“Be assured, the more we are ashamed of sin now, the less we shall be ashamed at Christ's coming.”

“Nature, in her gayest hues and dress, seems covered with a pall of sadness.”

“Not our birth from him, but our sinning in him, derives corruption upon us.”

“Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of his mercy, the jeer of his patience, the slight of his power, the contempt of his love.”

“Sin aims not only that man should not be well, but that man should not be at all.”

“We may be tempted, yet not enter into temptation.”

“God can make a way for a man to escape; when he is in, he can break the snare, tread down Satan, and make the soul more than a conqueror, though it have entered into temptation.”

“Christ is the crown of crowns, the glory of glories, and the heaven of heavens.”

“It is better to go with difficulty to heaven, than with ease to hell.”

“Faith and repentance preserve the spiritual life, as heat and water preserve the physical life.”