So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

A shaking hand may as well write a line steadily, as we can keep our hearts fixed in prayer without the Spirit of God.

Self-love raises a sickbed vow, and love of sin will prevail against it. Trust not to a passionate resolution; it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm.

My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts.

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The more spiritual a child of God becomes, the more conscious he is of the significance of walking according to the spirit and the dangers of walking according to the flesh.

Andrew Murray once said that what the church and individuals have to dread is the inordinate activity of the soul with its power of mind and will. F. B. Meyer declared that had he not known about the dividing of spirit and soul, he could not have imagined what his spiritual life would have been. Many others, such as Otto Stockmayer, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, Madame Guyon, have given the same testimony.

How pitiful it must be when the flesh gains dominion. Sin has slain the spirit: