The Meaning of PrayerAssociation Press, 1915 - 196 pages When anyone undertakes to study the meaning and to cultivate the habit of prayer, it is well for the person to understand, from the beginning, that he is dealing with a natural function of his life and not with an artificial addition. For instance, raising palm trees in Greenland would be an unnatural proceeding. They never were intended to grow there and never can grow there save under stress of artificial forcing. The culture of prayer would be just as strained a procedure, were it not true that the tendency to pray is native to us, that prayer is indigenous in us, that we do pray, one way or another, even though fitfully and without effect, and that we humans always have prayed and always will pray. |
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... God . In a study such as this , the Bible is the invaluable laboratory manual which records all phases of man's life with God and God's dealing with man . A debt of gratitude is due to many books and many friends consulted by the author ...
... God . In a study such as this , the Bible is the invaluable laboratory manual which records all phases of man's life with God and God's dealing with man . A debt of gratitude is due to many books and many friends consulted by the author ...
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... God is in thy room . " Read now Paul's appreciation of this hunger for God and this sense of his presence which are to be found among all peoples . Ye men of Athens , in all things I perceive that ye are very religious . For as I passed ...
... God is in thy room . " Read now Paul's appreciation of this hunger for God and this sense of his presence which are to be found among all peoples . Ye men of Athens , in all things I perceive that ye are very religious . For as I passed ...
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... God like that . " Somewhere in every man there is the capacity for worship and prayer , for the apprehension of God and the love of him . Is not this the distinctive quality of man and the noblest faculty which he possesses ? How then ...
... God like that . " Somewhere in every man there is the capacity for worship and prayer , for the apprehension of God and the love of him . Is not this the distinctive quality of man and the noblest faculty which he possesses ? How then ...
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... God ! Do Thou , my God , stand by me , against all the world's wisdom and reason . Oh , do it ! Thou must do it ! Yea , Thou alone must do it ! Not mine , but Thine , is the cause . For my own self , I have nothing to do with these ...
... God ! Do Thou , my God , stand by me , against all the world's wisdom and reason . Oh , do it ! Thou must do it ! Yea , Thou alone must do it ! Not mine , but Thine , is the cause . For my own self , I have nothing to do with these ...
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... God . - Eph . 3 : 14-19 . Compare praying like this with the spasmodic cry of occasional need and see how great the ... God's blessing on the one who prays and on all men . What starts in the pagan as an unregulated and fitful impulse ...
... God . - Eph . 3 : 14-19 . Compare praying like this with the spasmodic cry of occasional need and see how great the ... God's blessing on the one who prays and on all men . What starts in the pagan as an unregulated and fitful impulse ...
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Ahab answer believe Bible blessing called cause Christian communion Consider DAILY READINGS dominant desire earnest earth Eternal evil experience face faith Father feel fellowship friendship gifts give glory God's grace grant Habakkuk habitual hand hear heart heaven Henry Ward Beecher Holy Holy Spirit Horace Bushnell human individual intercession Jehovah Jeremy Taylor Kingdom knowledge lives Lord man's Master Matt means mercy mind moods natural natural law never ourselves peace petition practice prayer wheel presence Psalm Psalmist READINGS First Day realm reign of law rejoice religion righteous sake Scripture secret seek servant soul speak spirit SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHT supplication Thine things Thomas à Kempis Thou art Thou hast thou wilt thy name Thyself tion trouble true truth unanswered unanswered prayer unselfish unto thee Walter Rauschenbusch wants Week wisdom wish words