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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... revealed in " Solomon's prayer " at the dedication of the temple : Moreover concerning the foreigner , that is not of thy people Israel , when he shall come from a far country for thy great name's sake , and thy mighty hand , and thine ...
... revealed in " Solomon's prayer " at the dedication of the temple : Moreover concerning the foreigner , that is not of thy people Israel , when he shall come from a far country for thy great name's sake , and thy mighty hand , and thine ...
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... revealed in him than his deeds would have suggested . When he first realized that the new responsibility of kingship was upon him , how elevated the spirit of his impulsive prayer ! And now , O Jehovah my God , thou hast made thy ...
... revealed in him than his deeds would have suggested . When he first realized that the new responsibility of kingship was upon him , how elevated the spirit of his impulsive prayer ! And now , O Jehovah my God , thou hast made thy ...
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... reveals the nature of impulsive prayer : " They . . are at their wits ' end . Then they cry unto Jehovah " ( Psalm 107 : 27 , 28 ) . When prayer is left untrained , men pray only when they have reached their wits ' end . In moments of ...
... reveals the nature of impulsive prayer : " They . . are at their wits ' end . Then they cry unto Jehovah " ( Psalm 107 : 27 , 28 ) . When prayer is left untrained , men pray only when they have reached their wits ' end . In moments of ...
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... remain merely a tendency , it becomes nothing but a selfish , unin- telligent , occasional cry of need . But understood and dis- ciplined , it reveals possibilities whose limits never have been 17 THE NATURALNESS OF PRAYER [ I - c ]
... remain merely a tendency , it becomes nothing but a selfish , unin- telligent , occasional cry of need . But understood and dis- ciplined , it reveals possibilities whose limits never have been 17 THE NATURALNESS OF PRAYER [ I - c ]
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Harry Emerson Fosdick. ciplined , it reveals possibilities whose limits never have been found . SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION How far can prayer be said to be natural to all peoples in all times ? Are the following exercises ...
Harry Emerson Fosdick. ciplined , it reveals possibilities whose limits never have been found . SUGGESTIONS FOR THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION How far can prayer be said to be natural to all peoples in all times ? Are the following exercises ...
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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