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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... forces , and for the bereaved at home : “ It was then that my friend stifled a sob . There was Something after all , Some- thing greater than cosmic forces , greater than law - with an eye to pity and an arm to save . There was God . My ...
... forces , and for the bereaved at home : “ It was then that my friend stifled a sob . There was Something after all , Some- thing greater than cosmic forces , greater than law - with an eye to pity and an arm to save . There was God . My ...
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... 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 responsibility ; he prayed three times a day . How many of us leave the ...
... 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 responsibility ; he prayed three times a day . How many of us leave the ...
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... force in your own life and how effectively you are using it . O God , Thou art Life , Wisdom , Truth , Bounty , and Blessed- ness , the Eternal , the only true Good ! My God and my Lord , Thou art my hope and my heart's joy . I confess ...
... force in your own life and how effectively you are using it . O God , Thou art Life , Wisdom , Truth , Bounty , and Blessed- ness , the Eternal , the only true Good ! My God and my Lord , Thou art my hope and my heart's joy . I confess ...
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... force ; but if the act of prayer can be seen as the great Christians have seen it — a vital and sustaining friendship with a God who cares for every one of us - praying will cease being a form and become a force and a privilege . Note ...
... force ; but if the act of prayer can be seen as the great Christians have seen it — a vital and sustaining friendship with a God who cares for every one of us - praying will cease being a form and become a force and a privilege . Note ...
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... force of habit as a tradition . It is not vital . It does not mean " Grace to help us in time of need . " They are true to George Eliot's description of Hetty in Adam Bede : " Hetty was one of those numerous people who have had god ...
... force of habit as a tradition . It is not vital . It does not mean " Grace to help us in time of need . " They are true to George Eliot's description of Hetty in Adam Bede : " Hetty was one of those numerous people who have had god ...
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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