The best prayers have often more groans than words.
He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
The more he cast away, the more he had.
Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.
He that is down needs fear no fall.
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
The Lord uses his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.