Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

Our murmuring is the devil's music.

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.