Let it be remembered that no deliverance from law is deliverance from obedience or
commandments. I add "commandments," for it is not sufficient to be right; Christ’s authority must
be obeyed.

Obedience to God is the character of the Christian’s life, as it was of Christ’s.

"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." This sweeps away every principle of
conduct which cannot connect us with the world-rejected Christ.

Communion with God maintains two things:the sense of blessedness in His presence, and
separation from the world.

The whole principle of doing what we want to do is not Christian at all. Evil is always evil, no
matter who does it.

The same cross which connects me with God has separated me from the world.

When the blessing of God inspires us with confidence in ourselves, it is turned against us. …
When we are not before Him, our knowledge, our victories are snares, because they inspire us
with confidence in ourselves.