Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.