"Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace."
"Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires."
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Source: Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.22, Gideon House Books
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