Paul was Nero’s prisoner, but Nero was much more God’s.
The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
Job’s friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent the time in praying for him which they did in hot disputes with him, they would have profited him, and pleased God more.
Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.
The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God’s Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
The Christian’s life should put his minister’s sermon in print.
When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince’s hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner’s hand.
We are bid to take, not to make our cross.
As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king’s highway.
Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.
Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God’s leave.
The Christian, like a chalice without a base, cannot stand on his own nor hold what he has received any longer that God holds him in His strong hands.
Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father’s house.