To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.

As your faith is, such your hope will be. Hope is never ill when faith is well, nor strong if faith be weak.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.