Maxims #8
Prayer must be of the right sort
very humble
very expectant
very persevering.
Lord, teach me to pray.
~ Alexander Smellie
In prayer... "I must wrestle like Jacob, and pant like David, and
hope like Elijah, and be persistent like Bartimeus, and cry with tears like my blessed Lord."
~ Alexander Smellie
No listening is healthy which is not mentally referred to obedience. We are to listen with a view to obedience, with our eyes upon the very road where the obedient feet will tread. "Doing" makes a new thing out of "hearing."
The statue obeyed becomes a song.
The commandment is found to be a beatitude.
The decree discloses reaches of grace.
The hidden things of God are not discovered until we are treading the path of obedience.
~ Henry Jowett
With God, the most of mosts is lighter than nothing, and without Him the least of leasts is heavier than any burden.
~ One of the ladies of the Scottish Covenant