Related commentaries – Prayer

The priorities of prayer – I Timothy 2:1 – 2:7

It is lighening, not thunder that kills

A noted clergyman was asked by a colleague why the loud, vehement praying of his earlier days had given way to a more quiet, persuasive manner of speech. The man laughed. “When I was young,” he said, “I thought it was the thunder that killed people, but when I grew up I discovered it was lightning. So I determined that in the future I would thunder less and lighten more.” (Maxwell Droke in the Encyclopedia of Illustrations #9558).