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“A right and good heart is a praying heart. It has within it “the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.” (Rom. viii. 15.) Its daily feeling is, “Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” (Psalm xxvii. 8.) It is drawn by an habitual inclination to speak to God about spiritual things,—weakly, feebly, and imperfectly perhaps, but speak it must. It finds it necessary to pour out itself before God, as before a friend, and to spread before Him all its wants and desires. It tells Him all its secrets. It keeps back nothing from Him. You might as well try to persuade a man to live without breathing, as to persuade the possessor of a right heart to live without praying. Is this heart your own?”-J.C. Ryle