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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... Thou hast assigned to me , and suffered the days and hours of which I must give account to pass away without any ... Thou shalt yet allow me in diligent performance of Thy commands , through Jesus Christ . Amen . - Samuel Johnson ( 1709 ...
... Thou hast assigned to me , and suffered the days and hours of which I must give account to pass away without any ... Thou shalt yet allow me in diligent performance of Thy commands , through Jesus Christ . Amen . - Samuel Johnson ( 1709 ...
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... Thee with our whole heart ; that so desiring we may seek and find Thee ; and so finding Thee may love Thee ; and loving Thee , may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us . Amen.- Anselm ( 1033-1109 ) . Third Day , First Week ...
... Thee with our whole heart ; that so desiring we may seek and find Thee ; and so finding Thee may love Thee ; and loving Thee , may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us . Amen.- Anselm ( 1033-1109 ) . Third Day , First Week ...
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... thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father : and I am but a little child ; I know not how to go out or come in . And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen , a great people , that cannot be ...
... thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father : and I am but a little child ; I know not how to go out or come in . And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen , a great people , that cannot be ...
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... Thou hast not failed me , and even my enemies shall see that Thy mercies endure forever . - J . Norden ( 1548-1625 ) ... Thou art Life , Wisdom , Truth , Bounty , and Blessed- ness , the Eternal , the only true Good ! My God and my Lord ...
... Thou hast not failed me , and even my enemies shall see that Thy mercies endure forever . - J . Norden ( 1548-1625 ) ... Thou art Life , Wisdom , Truth , Bounty , and Blessed- ness , the Eternal , the only true Good ! My God and my Lord ...
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... Thou knowest what it is . For it we pray . " The archeologist goes back among the Aztec ruins and reads their prayer in affliction : “ O merciful Lord , let this chastisement with which thou hast visited us , give us freedom from evil ...
... Thou knowest what it is . For it we pray . " The archeologist goes back among the Aztec ruins and reads their prayer in affliction : “ O merciful Lord , let this chastisement with which thou hast visited us , give us freedom from evil ...
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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