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“Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“In order not to forget God and through lack of restraint to misuse one’s good fortune, it is ten times more necessary to call upon God’s name during a period of bliss than in the midst of tribulation.”
― Martin Luther, Treatise on Good Works: Luther Study Edition

“Conversion, then, involves repentance (turning from sin and unbelief) and faith (trusting in Christ alone for salvation).9 They are really two sides of the same coin. One side is tails—turn tail on the fruits of unbelief. The other side is heads—head straight for Jesus and trust His promises. You can’t have the one without the other any more than you can face two ways at once or serve two masters.”
― John Piper, Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

“We are told that it should be a preacher’s ambition not only to have “a spirit of wisdom,” but also “a spirit of understanding,” not merely knowledge of principles, but a skill in their practical application. He must be more than seer, he must be architect: he must be more than architect, he must be artisan. His preaching must do more than indicate ideal and goal, it must prepare the way by which the goal is reached. The preacher must be more than “a light to my path,” he must be “a lamp unto my feet.” All of which means that the preacher must be more than an idealist, more than a theologian, more than an evangelist: he must busy himself in the realms of political and social economics.”
― John Henry Jowett, The Preacher - His Life And Work