Prayer crowns God with the honour and glory that are due His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. Usually the most praying souls are the most assured souls.
— Thomas Brooks (1608–1680)
Oh What a Sunrise!
The night is long, and dark, and stormy, but the morning must come; and oh what a sunrise will it be!
— John Angell James
If the Lord Be With Us
If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer – His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.
— John Newton
Props of Inward Comforts
As men cherish young plants at first, and fence them about to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown, they remove them, and then leave them to the wind and weather, so God besets His children first with props of inward comforts, but afterwards exposes them to storms and winds, because they are better able to bear it. Therefore let no man think himself the better because he is free from troubles. It is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.
— Richard Sibbes
Peace and Comfort for Christians
And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comes to stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends.
— William Gurnall