For that is the true honor of His name, to look to it and call upon it for all consolation. Then--as we have learned in the First Commandment--the heart by faith gives God the honor due Him first. Afterward, the lips give Him honor by confession. This is also a blessed and useful habit and very effective against the devil. He is ever around us and lies in wait to bring us into sin and shame, disaster and trouble. But he hates to heard God's name and cannot remain long where it is spoken and called upon from the heart.
~BOC, LC, I, 70-71
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