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Now I would urge prayer. How much do we pray, dear brethren? How far do we travel in our prayers? The more you are with God the wider shall become the area covered by your prayers, until the whole household of faith is embraced, and indeed ‘all men’. Do not be satisfied with your prayers until you, as it were, cover the whole household of faith … It is a wonderful experience to have to say to God, and as you pray and embrace the saints in your prayers, you get an impression from God; you become assured He has heard you.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 67, p.476)

If we had truly died with Christ we should be morally severed from everything here; yet we should carry out every duty better than ever, because we should be solely dependent on Christ. No one can understand eternal life until he is in it, I mean, until he is enjoying it. With most christians what is sought is not to live with Christ where He is, but to obtain His help where we are. Both are ours, but while the greater leads to the lesser, the lesser does not include the greater.

J. B. Stoney (‘Letters’, 2nd Series, Vol. III, p.272)

Then he (Paul) proceeds to show how things were worked out in himself, which is another great thing. One might say to Paul—You have been telling us a good deal, giving nice addresses, and have stood on doctrinal lines ... but how have things been worked out in your own soul? That is how, as in service, we should challenge ourselves ... I do not know anything more effective in a way, than that a preacher can tell how the truth has come about in his own soul. That is what Paul is able to do above all others; he is able to tell us in Romans how things were worked out in his own soul.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 38, pp.327, 328)

A spiritual man is one who makes full room for the Spirit in himself.

J. Taylor (N.S. Vol. 38, p.391)

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