Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.

John 3:6, Jesus says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." The flesh does have a kind of life. Every human being is living flesh. But not every human being is living spirit. To be a living spirit, or to have spiritual life, Jesus says, we must be "born of the Spirit.

No true Christian can endure in battling unrighteousness unless his heart is aflame with new spiritual affections, or passions.

Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.

the path of obedience is the place where Christ meets us as our servant to carry our burdens and give us his power.

Thus it is unquestionably true that he who has been born of God, by "keeping himself," does not, cannot sin; and yet, if he does not keep himself, he may commit all manner of sin with greediness.

The first time the temptation comes, meet it in such a decided manner that it will never be repeated!

It is through the mighty agency of the Holy Spirit that the government of Satan is to be subdued and subjected. It is the Holy Spirit that convinces of sin and expels it from the soul by the consent of the human agent....

Bad habits are more easily formed than good habits, and the bad habits are given up with more difficulty. The natural depravity of the heart accounts for this well-known fact—that it takes far less labor to demoralize the youth, to corrupt their ideas of moral and religious character, than to engraft upon their character the enduring, pure, and uncorrupted habits of righteousness and truth.

Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benumbed and paralyzed by the gratification of the animal propensities and it is impossible for the slave of passion to realize the sacred obligation of the Law of God, to appreciate the atonement, or to place right value upon the soul.