More Gleanings from 'Bunyan's Characters' by A. Whyte - Slothful Prayer

"There is nothing we are all so slothful in as secret, particular, importunate prayer.
We have an almighty instrument in our hand in secret and exact prayer if we would only importunately and perseveringly employ it.
But there is an utterly unaccountable restraint of secret and particularising prayer in all of us. There is a soaking, stupefying sloth, that so fills our hearts that we forget and neglect the immense concession and privilege we have afforded us in secret prayer.
Our sloth and stupidity in prayer is surely the last proof of our fall and of the misery of our fallen state."