Prayer is the breath of spiritual life: it descends from God by His spirit, and ascends to Him again by the same spirit. It is ordained by Him as the grand mean of communication between Himself and them that are His: it comes, as all knowledge of God comes to us, through Christ; and goes through Him to the Father. It is that to which the natural man is an entire stranger; he has no inclination to it in the first place, being alienated from the life of God, and dead in trespasses and sins; he has no ability for it in the second, being shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, and incapable, as a guilty creature under a sentence of death, of communion with his Creator.
William Bromley Cadogan — The Honourable and Reverend William Bromley Cadogan, A.M., Late Rector of St. Luke's, Chelsea, Vicar of St. Giles's, Reading, Discourses, to Which Are Now Added Short Observations on the Lord's Prayer, and Letters to Several of His Friends, with Memoirs of His Life, by Richard Cecil, A.M. (London: F. and C. Rivington, 1798), "Thoughts, &c.," p. 305
Citation look off? Sign in to suggest a source or rate accuracy.
Where this is from
Work title, edition, or primary text used to cite this quote.
Margin notes
Discussion
Share context, ask questions, or discuss this quote. Comments are separate from source proposals and verification ratings.
No comments yet.
Loading…