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“The spirit of prayer must be born from above and cannot be imitated nor counterfeited by merely human effort.”  (A. B. Simpson  1843-1919)

“Great is the weakness of our faith as it appears by our fears, doubts, and distrusts so that we need to be assured more and more.  We need to say with tears as he says in the gospel: ‘Lord, I … Continue reading →

“How different if one is enabled to wait on God’s own time and to look alone to him for help and deliverance!  When at last help comes, after many seasons of prayer it may be, and after much exercise of … Continue reading →

“God withdraws not in anger, but in love; He feels, without ceasing, the strongest desire to return to us; He earnestly invites us to return; He continues still to view us with unabated love, with even greater pleasure than he … Continue reading →

“The way to victory is not a confident assertion of our own better selves, but faith, and faith necessarily refers us to something beyond ourselves.  The victorious faith of the Christian is trust in God as He is revealed in … Continue reading →

“Prayer is chiefly a heart work.  God hears the heart without the mouth, but never hears the mouth acceptably without the heart.”  (Walter Marshall)

“Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.  He that hungerS, let him hunger more; and he that desires, let him still more abundantly desire; for all that he can desire he shall fully … Continue reading →

“If the people of God would diligently keep their hearts, their communion with each other would be unspeakably more inviting and profitable.”  (John Flavel  1628-1691)

“From the lowest depths the language of faith is heard ascending to God most high who performeth all things for the believer.”  (John Stephen)

“He who looks away from himself, from his vileness, guiltiness, emptiness, and poverty fully and believingly unto Jesus, shall know what the forgiveness of sin is and shall experience the love of God shed abroad in his heart.”  (Octavius Winslow  … Continue reading →