November 26, 2009
The Saint in Prayer
True prayer is born first from our own sense of need, then from faith in God’s promises. Here will the readers be best awakened to sense their ills, and, as well, to seek remedies for them Whatever can stimulate us when we are about to pray to God, this book teaches. Not only are God’s promises presented to us there, but often there is shown to us, someone girding himself for prayer, caught between God’s invitation and the hindrance of the flesh thus are we taught how, if at any time, we are plagued with various doubts, to fight against them, until the mind freed, rises to God.
–John Calvin, “Piety of John Calvin” pp. 70
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