Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

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