Graeme Goldsworthy on Prayer

This book is good. Everything that Goldsworthy writes is worth reading, but this may turn out to be my favorite by Goldsworthy. So far, this is proving to be the best book I've read on prayer. Here's a few quotes I'm appreciating:

"A wrong perspective on prayer may well come from thinking of it as playing a part in establishing our acceptance with God. Prayer that is not the grateful response of the justified sinner is likely to degenerate into an attempt to gain acceptance.""...if the sole motive to pray is, as I have heard it put in sermons, 'Jesus got up early to pray, so how much more do we need to get up early to pray', it is missing the grace of God in the gospel. 'He did it, therefore we ought to' is not the perspective of the gospel unless it's linked with, 'He did it for us because we are unable to do it as we ought.'"