「我專心禱告。」－詩篇109:4
我們一天停留在主面前的時間有多少？豈不是都能用分鐘來計算嗎？但又有誰見過一個真屬靈的人，不肯將時間花費在主身上的呢？有人可以經過短暫的禱告，就能全身散發出禱告之靈的呢？
懷特腓曾說，「我曾好幾日，甚至數週跪在地上俯伏禱告；有時靜默、有時出聲」。
又有人說過：「在你雙膝跪下之處，就是你長進的地方」。他的確知道他在說什麼。
有人說過，若不習慣孤獨，沒有人能成為偉大的文學家或科學家；屬靈的事也是這樣，不願費時和神獨處的人，絕不能在聖別上有長足的進步。
－靜默時刻
"I will give myself unto prayer" (Ps. 109:4).We are often in a religious hurry in our devotions. How much time do we spend in them daily? Can it not be easily reckoned in minutes? Who ever knew an eminently holy man who did not spend much of his time in prayer? Did ever a man exhibit much of the spirit of prayer, who did not devote much time in his closet?
Whitefield says, "Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground, in silent or vocal prayer." "Fall upon your knees and grow there," is the language of another, who knew whereof he affirmed.
It has been said that no great work in literature or science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often, and long, alone with God.
--The Still Hour
