God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

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.

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

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

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.

Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?