We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?

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

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.