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"O what little things take our thoughts away from holy duties! When every toy, every feather, every light matter calls them off! Is this to sanctify God's name? Would we not account it a dishonorable thing if we were talking to someone about serious business, and, while we were talking, he would turn and talk to every one who passed by? If a superior is talking with you, he expects that you should mind what he says, but if God is speaking to you and you are speaking to God, every vain thought that comes by, you are turning aside, too, as if it were a greater thing to talk to vain thoughts and temptations than to the great and glorious God."
-Gospel Worship By Jeremiah Burroughs
“When people do not mind what God speaks to them In His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.”
-William Gurnall
“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks”.
- Thomas Goodwin
"What a mercy it is that we are not banished out of God's presence, that the Lord has not spurned us out of His sight as filth and cast us out as an everlasting abhorring. While others have been praying, we might have been yelling under the wrath of the eternal God.Come with this apprehension of yourself, and adore God's goodness that you are alive to pray and alive to hear God's Word, and that it is not only a duty, but a rich privilege and mercy that God will admit you into His presence."
-Gospel Worship By Jeremiah Burroughs
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