Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.