“Time spent in quiet prostration of soul before the Lord is most invigorating.  David ’sat before the Lord;’ it is a great thing to hold these sacred sittings; the mind being receptive, like an open plate accepting the image before it.  Quietude, which some men cannot abide, because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

” ‘Sacred silence!  thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart,
Offspring of a heavenly kind;
Frost o’ the mouth, and thaw o’ the mind.’ “*

LECTURES TO MY STUDENTS
C. H. Spurgeon
*Flecknoe.