The more satisfaction and delight we find in His love, the more we delight in loving others.
– Donald Whitney in Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health
The chosen agonize after the light;
The greatest of all spiritual and eternal blessings is the presence of God. On this our heart’s strongest desires ought to be fixed.
In effect, living apart from a conscious sense that the Lord is present is to live as though God really is not there.
The Christian should live on his knees, fight on his knees, and die and go to heaven on his knees.
Self-denial is the foundation of godliness, and if this is not well laid, all the building will fall.
In the truest sense, then,
Like most disciplines of the Christian faith, we learn best to pray alone when we have been taught in community.
Humility is the great ornament and jewel of the Christian religion.
Prayerlessness is my declaration