Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

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

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