He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.