Thoughts from The Valley

I read this in a collection of Puritan prayers calledThe Valley of Vision today and had to share it here:

"Give me intenser faith in the eternal verities, burning into me by experience the things I know ... Grant me to know that I truly live only when I live to thee, that all else is trifling" (235)

I need these reminders constantly, daily. That is why I thank God for this book, and the riches compiled therein.