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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... course of studies a valuable school of prayer . This suggests one of the principal merits of Professor Fosdick's treatment of the subject . It shows clear recognition of the simple and central fact — a fact apparently unrecognized by so ...
... course of studies a valuable school of prayer . This suggests one of the principal merits of Professor Fosdick's treatment of the subject . It shows clear recognition of the simple and central fact — a fact apparently unrecognized by so ...
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... course like a river , to the banks of each genera- tion's thought ; but it has flowed on , fed from fountains that changing banks do not affect . Nowhere is this more plain than in the Bible . Compare the dying prayer of Samson , as he ...
... course like a river , to the banks of each genera- tion's thought ; but it has flowed on , fed from fountains that changing banks do not affect . Nowhere is this more plain than in the Bible . Compare the dying prayer of Samson , as he ...
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... courses . I would not be made to work out Thy will unwillingly , to fulfil Thy law unintelligently , to obey Thy mandates unsym- pathetically . I would take the events of my life as good and perfect gifts from Thee ; I would receive ...
... courses . I would not be made to work out Thy will unwillingly , to fulfil Thy law unintelligently , to obey Thy mandates unsym- pathetically . I would take the events of my life as good and perfect gifts from Thee ; I would receive ...
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... course , this does not answer all questions about prayer , nor exhaust all its meaning . Definite petition has its im- portant place , and later we must consider it . But at the beginning of our study , the thought of prayer as ...
... course , this does not answer all questions about prayer , nor exhaust all its meaning . Definite petition has its im- portant place , and later we must consider it . But at the beginning of our study , the thought of prayer as ...
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... course , God numbers the hairs of our heads ! Just that sort of thing infinite knowledge necessarily implies . Of course , the Scripture cries in a passage , quoted by Jesus , “ All of you sons of the Most High ! " ( Psalm 82 : 6 ) ...
... course , God numbers the hairs of our heads ! Just that sort of thing infinite knowledge necessarily implies . Of course , the Scripture cries in a passage , quoted by Jesus , “ All of you sons of the Most High ! " ( Psalm 82 : 6 ) ...
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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