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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... minds . Prayer is the soul religion , and failure there is not a super- ficial lack for the supply of which the spiritual life leisurely can wait . Failure in prayer is the loss of religion itself in its inward and dynamic aspect of ...
... minds . Prayer is the soul religion , and failure there is not a super- ficial lack for the supply of which the spiritual life leisurely can wait . Failure in prayer is the loss of religion itself in its inward and dynamic aspect of ...
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... minds of many by its use during war . Men have felt the absurdity of praying on opposite sides of a battle , of making God a tribal leader in heaven , to give victory , as Zeus and Apollo used to do , to their favorites . Let us grant ...
... minds of many by its use during war . Men have felt the absurdity of praying on opposite sides of a battle , of making God a tribal leader in heaven , to give victory , as Zeus and Apollo used to do , to their favorites . Let us grant ...
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... mind is capable " ; and President Harper of the University of Chicago , on his death - bed prays : " May there be for me a life beyond this life ; and in that life may there be work to do , tasks to accomplish . If in any way a soul has ...
... mind is capable " ; and President Harper of the University of Chicago , on his death - bed prays : " May there be for me a life beyond this life ; and in that life may there be work to do , tasks to accomplish . If in any way a soul has ...
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... mind to think otherwise than solemnly of the feelings which prompt to prayer . Often unreasonable , even contempt- ible , in its purer forms prayer hints at disciplines which few of us can neglect without moral loss . " If there is any ...
... mind to think otherwise than solemnly of the feelings which prompt to prayer . Often unreasonable , even contempt- ible , in its purer forms prayer hints at disciplines which few of us can neglect without moral loss . " If there is any ...
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... mind of man can receive and feel ; finally , above angels and archangels , and above all the heavenly host , above all things visible and invisible , and above all that Thou art not , O my God . It is too small and un- satisfying ...
... mind of man can receive and feel ; finally , above angels and archangels , and above all the heavenly host , above all things visible and invisible , and above all that Thou art not , O my God . It is too small and un- satisfying ...
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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