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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... give account to pass away without any endeavor to accomplish Thy will . Make me to remember , O God , that every day is Thy gift , and ought to be used according to Thy command . Grant me , therefore , so to repent of my negligence ...
... give account to pass away without any endeavor to accomplish Thy will . Make me to remember , O God , that every day is Thy gift , and ought to be used according to Thy command . Grant me , therefore , so to repent of my negligence ...
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... give victory , as Zeus and Apollo used to do , to their favorites . Let us grant all the narrow , bitter , irrational elements that thus appear in prayer during a war , but let us not be blind to the meaning of this momentous fact ...
... give victory , as Zeus and Apollo used to do , to their favorites . Let us grant all the narrow , bitter , irrational elements that thus appear in prayer during a war , but let us not be blind to the meaning of this momentous fact ...
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... Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people , that I may dis- cern between good and evil ; for who is able to judge this thy great people ? —I Kings 3 : 7-9 . As a companionpiece with this cry of Solomon , see ...
... Give thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge thy people , that I may dis- cern between good and evil ; for who is able to judge this thy great people ? —I Kings 3 : 7-9 . As a companionpiece with this cry of Solomon , see ...
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... give us freedom from evil and from folly . " The historian finds the Greek world typical of all ancient civiliza- tions at least in this , that prayer is everywhere . Xenophon begins each day's march with prayer ; Pericles begins every ...
... give us freedom from evil and from folly . " The historian finds the Greek world typical of all ancient civiliza- tions at least in this , that prayer is everywhere . Xenophon begins each day's march with prayer ; Pericles begins every ...
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... give himself to the deepening and purifying of his prayer , for it is as natural in human life as thought . III The naturalness of prayer is further seen in the fact that prayer is latent in the life of every one of us . At first the ...
... give himself to the deepening and purifying of his prayer , for it is as natural in human life as thought . III The naturalness of prayer is further seen in the fact that prayer is latent in the life of every one of us . At first 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