HOLINESS-MEANS-PRAYER
A
holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
E.M. Bounds
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than
others? I believe the difference, in
nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private
prayer. I believe that those who are not
eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
J.C. Ryle
A Call to Prayer, Baker, 1979, p. 35.
No man can
expect to make progress in holiness who is not often
and long alone with God.
Author Unknown
Praying will
make you leave off sinning, or sinning will make you leave off praying.
Author Unknown
Ithas been said that no great work in
literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle
of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did
not take time to be often long alone with God.
Austin Phelps
The Still Hour or Communion with God, 1974,
p. 64, by permission Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA..
He
who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
John Owen
The Grace and Duy of Being Spiritually Minded, Baker,
1977, p. 59.