When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.

When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.