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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... demands it to save their lives or until special work absolutely forces them to it . They rather recognize eating as a normal need of human beings , to be met regularly . So Daniel not only prayed in emergencies of peril and ...
... demands it to save their lives or until special work absolutely forces them to it . They rather recognize eating as a normal need of human beings , to be met regularly . So Daniel not only prayed in emergencies of peril and ...
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... demand on life , unselfish and constant . It gathers up the powers of the soul in a constraining desire for God's blessing on the one who prays and on all men . What starts in the pagan as an unregulated and fitful impulse has become in ...
... demand on life , unselfish and constant . It gathers up the powers of the soul in a constraining desire for God's blessing on the one who prays and on all men . What starts in the pagan as an unregulated and fitful impulse has become in ...
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... demand on God . VII The shame of leaving thus uncultivated one of the noblest functions of man's spirit is emphasized when we face the testimony of the masters in prayer concerning its possibili- ties . What the power of thought can ...
... demand on God . VII The shame of leaving thus uncultivated one of the noblest functions of man's spirit is emphasized when we face the testimony of the masters in prayer concerning its possibili- ties . What the power of thought can ...
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... demand for his gifts . Many people associate prayer exclusively with some special posture , such as kneel- ing , and with the verbal utterance of their particular wants . They often are disturbed because this act gives them no help ...
... demand for his gifts . Many people associate prayer exclusively with some special posture , such as kneel- ing , and with the verbal utterance of their particular wants . They often are disturbed because this act gives them no help ...
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... of the greatest Christian hymns : ' Were the whole realm of Nature mine , That were a present far too small ! Love so amazing , so Divine , Demands my soul ! - ' ។ That is to say that my soul is a 42 [ III - 4 ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
... of the greatest Christian hymns : ' Were the whole realm of Nature mine , That were a present far too small ! Love so amazing , so Divine , Demands my soul ! - ' ។ That is to say that my soul is a 42 [ III - 4 ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
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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