There Is A State Of Perfect Peace

We Are Never Nearer Christ Than When We Find Ourselves Lost In A Holy Amazement At His Unspeakable Love.

He That Stands Still And Suffers His Enemies To Double Blows Upon Him Without Resistance, Will Undoubtedly Be Conquered In The Issue.

Sin Aims Always At The Utmost; Every Time It Rises Up To Tempt Or Entice, If It Has Its Own Way It Will Go Out To The Utmost Sin In That Kind. Every Unclean Thought Or Glance Would Be Adultery If It Could, Every Thought Of Unbelief Would Be Atheism If Allowed To Develop. Every Rise Of Lust, If It Has Its Way Reaches The Height Of Villainy; It Is Like The Grave That Is Never Satisfied. The Deceitfulness Of Sin Is Seen In That It Is Modest In Its First Proposals But When It Prevails It Hardens Men’s Hearts, And Brings Them To Ruin.

If I Have Observed Anything By Experience, It Is This: A Man May Take The Measure Of His Growth And Decay In Grace According To His Thoughts And Meditations Upon The Person Of Christ, And The Glory Of Christ's Kingdom, And Of His Love.

When Sin Lets Us Alone We May Let Sin Alone; But As Sin Is Never Less Quiet Than When It Seems To Be Most Quiet, And Its Waters Are For The Most Part Deep When They Are Still, So Ought Our Contrivances Against It To Be Vigorous At All Times And In All Conditions, Even Where There Is Least Suspicion.