“Prayer is in one sense an expression of a Christian’s unbroken relationship with the Father” (Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 67).

Thus saith C. H. Spurgeon: “Doctrine without exhortation makes men all brain, no heart; exhortation without doctrine makes the heart full, leaves the brain empty. Both together make a man.”

“One reason why we persist in baptizing babies – helpless, dependent, sinful, little things that babies are – because each of us, at any age, is helpless, dependent, in need of God doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves” (William H. Willimon & Stanley Hauerwas, Lord, Teach Us: The Lord’s Prayer and the Christian Life, 28).

Amen, indeed.