Daily Quote for Friday, August 18, 2023

"I can at the prayer meetings readily tell when the brother is praying and when he is only performing, or playing at prayer. You know how it is with some prayers – they are like an invoice, 'as per usual,' or a list of goods with 'ditto, ditto,' every here and there. Oh for a living groan! One sigh of the soul has more power in it than a half an hour of recitation of pretty pious words. Oh for a sob from the soul, or a tear from the heart!” (Source: The Forgotten Spurgeon, by Iain Murray