Repentance is the vomit of the soul.
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.