Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Author: Philip Yancey Source: Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?
Today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
For no sin whereof men can be guilty in this world is of so horrible a nature, and so dreadful an aspect, as is this unbelief, where a clear view of it is obtained in evangelical light.
Author: John Owen Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
The best duties of unbelievers are but white lies.
Author: John Owen Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.