worship

King of glory, King of peace,
I will love you;
and that love may never cease,
I will move you

Let all the world in every corner sing,
'My God and King!'

George Herbert

worth a read!

Scott McKnight on Brian Harris, the Tortoise Usually Wins - see this blog!
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2013/06/05/a-more-common-kind-of-leader/

Faith

Faith is 'a living, daring confidence in God's grace' - Martin Luther

salvific care

'May the souls so dearly purchased by the blood of our Lord not perish by our carelessness' - John Calvin (CO 46.301)

attributing miracles to God

'You may attribute miracles to God, but not nonsense' - C.S. Lewis

fig leaves!

The thing that keeps God out of our lives is not our sin. It is our compulsion to pretend, to cover up our nakedness with fig leaves, to climb sycamore trees to see without being seen - Pete Greig

Calvin's rules of prayer

# that we be disposed in mind and heart as befits those who enter conversation with God
# that in our petitions we ever sense our own insufficiency, and earnestly pondering how we need all that we seek, join with this prayer an earnest - nay, burning - desire to attain it
# that anyone who stands before God to pray, in his humility giving glory to God, abandon all thought of his own glory
# cast down and overcome by true humility, we should nonetheless be encouraged to pray by a sure hope that our prayer will be answered
John Calvin, Institutes 3.20

These make sense today as they did in the 16th century - and may stand as a corrctive to our sometimes sloppy attitude towards God and our spiritual discipline of prayer.