If we do not delight in communion with him, we do not honour him as the chiefest good. Friends love to be often in one another’s company, and certainly ‘it is good to draw nigh to God,’ to preserve an acquaintance between him and us. He […]
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world; at least, we should be better enabled to bear them, and undergo our portion in them with the more satisfaction. —John Owen The Works of John […]
The great work of prayer is to lift up the heart to God To withdraw the heart from all created things which we see and feel here below, that we may converse with God in heaven: “Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that […]
AII our prayers should carry a correspondence with our great aim. What is our great aim? To be with God in heaven, as remembering that is the center and place of our rest, to which we are all tending: “If ye then be risen with Christ, […]
We stand at better advantage to find truth, and keep it also, when devoutly praying for it, than fiercely wrangling and contending about it.