The Bible commentator Matthew Henry wrote a book called Experiencing God’s Presence. In it (p.11), he says: “Although Psalm 5:3 may be taken as a promise that God will hear our prayers...
Our fathers had much to say about stillness, and by stillness they meant the absence of motion or the absence of noise or both...
The pernicious tendency of these traditions is very strikingly illustrated, in one of our Lord’s discourses...
According to John Bunyan in The Acceptable Sacrifice: The Excellency of a Broken Heart (p.2-3), there “are four things that are very acceptable to God...
That God should shew mercy to sinners, hath the greatest condescension in it, but much more to come down and proclaim it: ‘Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth!’
