A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

The torments of hell abide for ever.... If all the earth and sea were sand, and every thousandth year a bird should come, and take away one grain of this sand, it would be a long time ere that vast heap of sand were emptied; yet, if after all that time the damned may come out of hell, there were some hope; but this word EVER breaks the heart.