By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.