Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Old truths are always new to us, if they come with the smell of heaven upon them.

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.

Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.