Progress in grace...

Spurgeon, "COMFORT FOR THE DESPONDING"

Nothing brings such leanness into a man's soul
as lack of prayer.

It is well said that neglected prayer
is the birth-place of all evil.

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.
But if one neglects his closet, then all evil comes of it.

No man can progress in grace if he forsakes prayer.