The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

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

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.