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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... 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 our generation . vii.
... 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 our generation . vii.
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... faith , fear , and love . Hear , O Lord , and answer us ; for Jesus Christ's sake . Amen.-E. Hawkins ( 1789-1882 ) . Fourth Day , First Week H. Clay Trumbull tells us that a soldier in the Civil War , wounded in a terrific battle at ...
... faith , fear , and love . Hear , O Lord , and answer us ; for Jesus Christ's sake . Amen.-E. Hawkins ( 1789-1882 ) . Fourth Day , First Week H. Clay Trumbull tells us that a soldier in the Civil War , wounded in a terrific battle at ...
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... faith , and of Thy truth , and may continue in the same unto the end of my life , through the same our Lord Jesus Christ . Amen . - Bishop Ridley ( 1500-1555 ) . Fifth Day , First Week The instinctive turning of the 5 THE NATURALNESS OF ...
... faith , and of Thy truth , and may continue in the same unto the end of my life , through the same our Lord Jesus Christ . Amen . - Bishop Ridley ( 1500-1555 ) . Fifth Day , First Week The instinctive turning of the 5 THE NATURALNESS OF ...
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... faith ; to the end that ye , being rooted and grounded in love , may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth , and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge , that ye may ...
... faith ; to the end that ye , being rooted and grounded in love , may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth , and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge , that ye may ...
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... faith wherein St. Bernard prays , do I pray also . " Not only does a liberal philosopher , Sabatier , say , " Prayer is religion in act ; that is , prayer is real religion " ; and a conservative theologian , Hartmann , say , " God has ...
... faith wherein St. Bernard prays , do I pray also . " Not only does a liberal philosopher , Sabatier , say , " Prayer is religion in act ; that is , prayer is real religion " ; and a conservative theologian , Hartmann , say , " God has ...
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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