Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.

If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.