True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.
My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.
Jesus wept, but He never complained.
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.