In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.
Thomas Boston, Horatius Bonar (2006). “Art of Manfishing & Words to Winners of Souls”, p.37, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
