The flesh is never improved. It is as evil, and as ready to do evil, at the end of our Christian life as at the beginning. But if we walk with God, and keep it under the judgment which He has pronounced upon it in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and executed there too-blessed be His name-it has then no power to act.

All true Christian experience ends in destroying confidence in the flesh, and making Christ all to one's soul.

It is easy to exalt the Church, for it condemns nothing in us; it is quite another thing to exalt Christ, for that condemns everything in us. I am a great person when I think of the Church; I am a poor worm when I think of Christ; yet He loves me. What bliss!