Quotes 29 Jun

This is the ugly fact we have to face. The basic reason why prayer is hard is because the sinful, selfish heart does not want to pray. Prayer is in no sense technically difficult. It’s the easiest thing in the world: you just talk to God. The difficult thing is not the doing of it, but the desiring of it. In our fallen nature we do not have within us the desire that we should have for fellowship with the living God. This is the fundamental problem, and the reason why prayerlessness cannot be tackled as an isolated issue, unrelated to the rest of our Christian lives. To find prayer hard is normal, but to give up on prayer indicates a deep spiritual problem. There needs to be change at the level of the heart, coming from a deepening understanding of the gospel and a growing desire for fellowship with God in Christ." —Andrew Randall, 'Following Jesus'

"If we are not willing to confront, how can we report to the Lord Jesus Christ that we love our neighbour as ourselves?" Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Our Battle for Humanness, Moody Monthly, 1983

A wise man will let down the bucket of his tongue into the well of his reason before he pour forth words. —William Jenkyn

'For he is justly numbered among the hypocrites who turns the ministry of spiritual direction into an opportunity for domination.' Gregory the Great, The Book of Pastoral Rule