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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... difference is . Here prayer has risen into an elevated 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 ...
... difference is . Here prayer has risen into an elevated 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 ...
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... differences of opinion and go down into the essential spirit of worship , Catholics and Protestants , Jews and Gentiles , men of every shade of special belief and sectarian alliance are authors of the hymns we all sing , so in prayer ...
... differences of opinion and go down into the essential spirit of worship , Catholics and Protestants , Jews and Gentiles , men of every shade of special belief and sectarian alliance are authors of the hymns we all sing , so in prayer ...
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... that we should obtain the things for which we asked . It made but little difference what the things were ; for prayer was an Aladdin's lamp by rubbing which we summoned the angels of God to 28 [ II - c ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
... that we should obtain the things for which we asked . It made but little difference what the things were ; for prayer was an Aladdin's lamp by rubbing which we summoned the angels of God to 28 [ II - c ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
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... difference in the prayer of the prodigal on leaving and returning home ? What was the essential element in prayer in the experience of Jesus ? Did Jesus receive everything he prayed for ? Why did Jesus pray ? Why did the disciples ask ...
... difference in the prayer of the prodigal on leaving and returning home ? What was the essential element in prayer in the experience of Jesus ? Did Jesus receive everything he prayed for ? Why did Jesus pray ? Why did the disciples ask ...
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... difference between size and worth . Mere bulk can- not deceive him . He must know where in all his universe the real values lie . As to where the real values do lie , the thoughtful of all races have unanimously agreed that they are ...
... difference between size and worth . Mere bulk can- not deceive him . He must know where in all his universe the real values lie . As to where the real values do lie , the thoughtful of all races have unanimously agreed that they are ...
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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