Just as the 'Holy Spirit was God's answer to the separation, the special relationship was then the ego's answer to the creation of the Holy Spirit.

But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.

The self-indulgent man, then, craves for all pleasant things or those that are most pleasant . . . Hence he is pained both when he fails to get them and when he is craving for them, for appetite involves pain.

The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.

Again, it is harder to fight with pleasure than with anger, to use Heraclitus' phrase', but both art and virtue are always concerned with what is harder;

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

There is no way of deliverance from the state and condition of being in the flesh, but by the Spirit of Christ.

be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Do not seek to empty your cup as a way to avoid sin, but rather seek to fill it up with the Spirit of life, so there is no longer room for sin.

Sin does not only still abide in us, but is still acting, still laboring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be the most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.