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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
See in the meantime that your faith brings forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.
A true saving knowledge of sin is to be had only in the Lord Christ: in him may we see the desert of our iniquities.
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight hereafter who does not in some measure behold it here by faith.
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
He that is more frequent in his pulpit to his people than he is in his closet for his people, is but a sorry watchman.
We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
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.
He that loves works out good to those that he loves, as he is able. God's power and will are equal; what He wills He works.
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
He that stands still and suffers his enemies to double blows upon him without resistance, will undoubtedly be conquered in the issue.
We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.
He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.
When we have communion with God in the doctrine we contend for-then shall we be garrisoned by the grace of God against all the assaults of men.
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect.
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
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
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.
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
Christ is the meat, the bread, the food of our souls. Nothing is in him of a higher spiritual nourishment than his love, which we should always desire.
Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.
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.
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.