Find Time to Pray

 “Why cannot men find time for prayer?

The only answer is because they do not love it.” — Charles Spurgeon

Crowning Comfort

 This is the crowning comfort to a sensible and understanding soul, that he stands righteous before a judgment seat in that full, exact, perfect, complete, matchless, spotless, and most acceptable righteousness of Christ which is imputed to him.

Puritan Thomas Brooks

The Works of Thomas Brooks, 3:485

Faithfully Performs

 "Whatever God mercifully promises, he also faithfully performs" - John Calvin, Institutes, III.xiii.4

Higher Level

 He who desires to be in an assured state, to have continual fellowship with God, to attain to a higher level of illumination & experience, and to fear God steadfastly, let him strictly observe his devotional time and let him not be neglectful in this.

—Wilhelmus à Brakel, 3:465

Hoornbeck no.1

 You can be assured that, since such feelings about sin (despair, regret, hatred) do not occur in an unconverted person, you, brought to this place through God's Spirit, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 converted & therefore share in the saving grace of God.

—Johannes Hoornbeeck, Spiritual Desertion, 81

Beloved by God

 Saving faith is a persuasion that we shall have life and salvation by Christ, or a receiving and resting on Him for salvation, included in it a knowledge of ourselves being beloved by God; the former cannot be without the latter.

--Thomas Boston

Morning Prayer Wilberforce

 O Lord, help me. I will try to assign at least an hour in the morning, and when circumstances will permit, the same in the evening, for Scripture reading, private devotion, and meditation.

--William Wilberforce

Stung to your Father's Feet

 “You would not pray if you did not have trouble. It is a blessing to be stung to your Father’s feet!”

— Charles Spurgeon

Frequent in Prayer

 Be frequent in prayer, and it will help you much. “Draw near to God” (James 4:8).

Complain of the slipperiness of your nature, of your weakness to withstand Satan’s assaults, and entreat God to give you strength that you may hold out. —John Cotton, Works 2:163

Pink's Study

 ARTHUR PINK’S STUDY METHODS

“In my early years I assiduously followed this threefold course:

First, I read through the entire Bible three times a year (eight chapters in the Old Testament, and two in the New Testament daily.) I steadily persevered in this for ten years, in order to familiarize myself with its contents, which can only be done by consecutive reading.

Second, I studied a portion of the Bible each week, concentrating for ten minutes (or more) each day on the same passage, pondering the order of it, the connection between each statement, seeking a definition of the important terms in it, looking up all the marginal references, being on the look-out for its typical significance.

Third, I meditated on one verse each day; writing it out on a slip of paper in the morning, memorizing it, consulting it at odd moments through the day; pondering separately each word in it, asking God to open for me its spiritual meaning and to write it on my heart. The verse was my food for that day, meditation standing to reading as mastication does to eating.

The more some such method as the above be followed out, the more shall we be able to say, ‘thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path’ [Ps 119:105].”

~ Arthur Pink, "Letters of A.W. Pink"

As if you were

 "You stand before God as if you were Christ, because Christ stood before God as if He were you."

-Charles Spurgeon.