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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... truth , Jehovah , the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands , and have cast their gods into the fire ; for they were no gods but the work of men's hands , wood and stone ; therefore they have destroyed 3 THE ...
... truth , Jehovah , the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands , and have cast their gods into the fire ; for they were no gods but the work of men's hands , wood and stone ; therefore they have destroyed 3 THE ...
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... truth , and may continue in the same unto the end of my life , through the same our Lord Jesus Christ . Amen . - Bishop Ridley ( 1500-1555 ) . Fifth Day , First Week The instinctive turning of the 5 THE NATURALNESS OF PRAYER [ 1-4 ]
... truth , and may continue in the same unto the end of my life , through the same our Lord Jesus Christ . Amen . - Bishop Ridley ( 1500-1555 ) . Fifth Day , First Week The instinctive turning of the 5 THE NATURALNESS OF PRAYER [ 1-4 ]
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... 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 , with thanks- giving , that Thou hast made me in Thine image , that I may direct all my ...
... 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 , with thanks- giving , that Thou hast made me in Thine image , that I may direct all my ...
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... truth of religion . Can it be that all men , in all ages and all lands , have been engaged in " talking forever to a silent world from which no answer comes " ? If we can be sure of anything , is it not this - that wherever a human ...
... truth of religion . Can it be that all men , in all ages and all lands , have been engaged in " talking forever to a silent world from which no answer comes " ? If we can be sure of anything , is it not this - that wherever a human ...
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... truth set forth in these two passages : And he sat down , and called the twelve ; and he saith unto them , If any man would be first , he shall be last of all , and servant of all . And he took a little child , and set him in the midst ...
... truth set forth in these two passages : And he sat down , and called the twelve ; and he saith unto them , If any man would be first , he shall be last of all , and servant of all . And he took a little child , and set him in the midst ...
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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