The principal cause of my leanness and unfruitfulness is owing to an
unaccountable backwardness to pray. I can write or read or converse or
hear with a ready heart; but prayer is more spiritual and inward than
any of these, and the more spiritual any duty is the more my carnal
heart is apt to start from it. Prayer and patience and faith are never
disappointed. I have long since learned that if ever I was to be a
minister, faith and prayer must make me one. When I can find my heart in
frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy.
Richard Newton
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