Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.