You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.