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.

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

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

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

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

Oh, it is sad for a poor Christian to stand at the door of the promise, in the dark night of affliction, afraid to draw the latch, whereas he should then come boldly for shelter as a child into his father's house.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.