The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

All thing I thought I knew; but now confess, the more I know I know, I know the less.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

Leanness of body and soul may go together.

Christs blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin sick souls.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

Without consistency there is no moral strength.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

Custom is second nature.

This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?