I commend to you the importance of earnestness in prayer…. It is desirable that we should be hearty and fervent and warm, and ask as if we were really interested in what we were doing.
– J. C. Ryle
Churchless Christianity is wildly unbiblical. God’s people are called to live in loving and intentional community with one another, and never in isolation.
I commend to you the importance of making prayer a regular business of life…. Just as you allot time to eating, sleeping, and business, also allot time to prayer.
To hear of the love of God is sweet – to believe it most precious – but to enjoy it is paradise below the skies.
I commend then to your attention, the importance of reverence and humility in prayer. Let us never forget what we are, and what a solemn thing it is to speak with God. Let us beware of rushing into his presence with carelessness and levity.
The heart must be alive with gracious gratitude, or the leaf cannot long be green with living holiness.
The wheels of all machinery for extending the gospel are moved by prayer.