Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed – pride will soon come down.
Make it a part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.
There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
If you would train your children rightly, train them in the way they should go and not in the way they would.
The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith, after their conversion. It is able to cleanse them, to sanctify them, to instruct them in righteousness, and to furnish them thoroughly for all good works.
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
Nothing is so fickle and uncertain as popularity. It is here today and gone tomorrow. It is a sandy foundation, and sure to fail those who build upon it.
Who shall dare to talk of strength when David can fall?
Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.
A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.
Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
He that would be conformed to Christ’s image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.
Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.