There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit ...
God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air. Whether we think of or speak to God, whether we act or suffer for Him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than His love, and the desire of pleasing Him.
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice... Prayer continues in the desire of the heart though the understanding be employed on outward things.
~ John Wesley (A Plain Account of Christian Perfection)
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