“Prayer is indeed the best half of our business while upon earth, and that which gives spirit and efficacy to all the rest.
Prayer is not only our immediate duty, but the highest dignity, the richest privilege we are capable of receiving on this side eternity; and the neglect of it implies the deepest guilt, and includes the heaviest punishment.
A stranger to prayer, is equally a stranger to God and to happiness, like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Are any of you, my friends, unacquainted with prayer?
Then are you without God in the world, without a guide in prosperity, without resource in distress, without true comfort in life, and, while you continue so, without hope in death.”
–John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Volume 2 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 2: 328.
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