Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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

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

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.

Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.