" In reading the Bible..Study every word; ponder and pray over it till you have got from it all the truth it contains.
As to other devotional reading, it is better to settle down to a few favorite authors and read their works over and over and over until you have digested their thoughts and made them your own.
It has been said that a fixed, inflexible will is a great assistance in a holy life.
You can will to choose for your associates those who are most devout and holy.
You can will to read books that will stimulate you in your Christian life rather than those that merely amuse.
You can will to spend much time in prayer without regard to your frame at the moment.
You can will to prefer a religion of principle rather than one of feeling; in other words to obey God when no comfortable glow of emotion accompanies your obedience.
You can not will to possess the Holy Spirit; that must be His gift to you, but you can will to study Christ's life and to imitate it. This will infallibly lead to such self-denying work as visiting the poor, nursing the sick, giving of your time and money to the needy and the like."
~Stepping Heavenward by Mrs. E. Prentiss in the 1800s
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very challenging!!1
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