I am leading the service tonight, and as we are still in our church Month Of Prayer, Bob is going to mention some great "Praying Christians" in the sermon. I thought I'd check out the writers of the hymns he has chosen, and if they said anything on prayer. Found this fabulous quote from John Newton, with which I concur!
"The chief fault of some good prayers is, that they are too long; not that I think we should pray by the clock, and limit ourselves precisely to a certain number of minutes; but it is better of the two, that the hearers should wish the prayer had been longer, than spend half the time in wishing it was over."
How true! Quality not quantity works best!
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