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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... experience and Christian faith ; that the discipline of our souls and the deepening of our acquaintance with God are not proving sufficiently thorough to enable us to meet the unprecedented expansion of opportunity and responsibility of ...
... experience and Christian faith ; that the discipline of our souls and the deepening of our acquaintance with God are not proving sufficiently thorough to enable us to meet the unprecedented expansion of opportunity and responsibility of ...
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... experience or observation when either you or some one else has been thrown back by an emergency upon this natural tendency to pray in a crisis . Consider what it means that this impulse to pray is not simply age - long and universal ...
... experience or observation when either you or some one else has been thrown back by an emergency upon this natural tendency to pray in a crisis . Consider what it means that this impulse to pray is not simply age - long and universal ...
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... experience of some may seem to gainsay this . They have given up praying . They get on very well without it , and when they are entirely candid they confess that they dis- believe in it . But they must also confess that their dis ...
... experience of some may seem to gainsay this . They have given up praying . They get on very well without it , and when they are entirely candid they confess that they dis- believe in it . But they must also confess that their dis ...
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... experience . At least , so one of the psalmists felt . My God , my God , why hast thou forsaken me ? Why art thou so far from helping me , and from the words of my groaning ? O my God , I cry in the daytime , but thou answerest not ...
... experience . At least , so one of the psalmists felt . My God , my God , why hast thou forsaken me ? Why art thou so far from helping me , and from the words of my groaning ? O my God , I cry in the daytime , but thou answerest not ...
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... experience of the race . In view of what prayer has meant to all peoples , he sees that probably the trouble is with himself and not with prayer . He sets himself therefore to understand prayer if he can , and in the 22nd verse of the ...
... experience of the race . In view of what prayer has meant to all peoples , he sees that probably the trouble is with himself and not with prayer . He sets himself therefore to understand prayer if he can , and in the 22nd verse of the ...
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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