Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Pride of gifts robs us of God's blessing in the use of them.

It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.