The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.
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?
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.