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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... given generously of their time and counsel . Each chapter is divided into three sections : Daily Readings , Comment for the Week , and Suggestions for Thought and Discussion . This arrangement for daily devotional reading — “ The ...
... given generously of their time and counsel . Each chapter is divided into three sections : Daily Readings , Comment for the Week , and Suggestions for Thought and Discussion . This arrangement for daily devotional reading — “ The ...
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... given us why we should not pray , whilst others are given us why we should . But in all this very little is said of the reason why we do pray . . . . The reason why we do pray is simply that we cannot help praying . " Our justification ...
... given us why we should not pray , whilst others are given us why we should . But in all this very little is said of the reason why we do pray . . . . The reason why we do pray is simply that we cannot help praying . " Our justification ...
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... 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- belief lies in their opinions and not in their impulses ...
... 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- belief lies in their opinions and not in their impulses ...
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... given to real prayer the power to shape the future for men and the world " ; and a Catholic poet , Francis Thompson , say , " Prayer is the very sword of the saints " : even Professor Tyndall , the scientist , who was regarded by the ...
... given to real prayer the power to shape the future for men and the world " ; and a Catholic poet , Francis Thompson , say , " Prayer is the very sword of the saints " : even Professor Tyndall , the scientist , who was regarded by the ...
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... given me I have given unto them ; that they may be one , even as we are one ; I in them , and thou in me , that they may be perfected into one ; that the world may know that thou didst send me , and lovedst them , even as thou lovedst ...
... given me I have given unto them ; that they may be one , even as we are one ; I in them , and thou in me , that they may be perfected into one ; that the world may know that thou didst send me , and lovedst them , even as thou lovedst ...
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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