The 2008 Scotland Faith and Freedom Tour in Front of John Knox’s St Giles Church

“[S]ometimes God defers or prolongs to grant our petitions, for the exercise and trial of our faith, and not that he sleeps or is absent from us at any time, but that with more gladness we might receive that which, with long expectation, we have [awaited]; that thereby we, assured of his eternal providence (so far as the infirmity of our corrupt and most weak nature will permit), doubt not but that his merciful hand shall relieve us in most urgent necessity and extreme tribulation.”[i]

[i] Excerpted from “A Treatise on Prayer, or, A Confession, and Declaration of Prayers added Thereto, by John Knox, Minister of Christ’s Most Holy Evangel, Upon the Death of that Most Virtuous and Most Famous King, Edward VI, 1553.” Recorded in Selected Writings of John Knox (Dallas, TX: Presbyterian Heritage Publications, 1995), p. 73.