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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... whole heart ; that so desiring we may seek and find Thee ; and so finding Thee may love Thee ; and loving Thee , may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us . Amen.- Anselm ( 1033-1109 ) . Third Day , First Week Prayer has been ...
... whole heart ; that so desiring we may seek and find Thee ; and so finding Thee may love Thee ; and loving Thee , may hate those sins from which Thou hast redeemed us . Amen.- Anselm ( 1033-1109 ) . Third Day , First Week Prayer has been ...
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... likely to make us pray . This is true of whole populations as well as of individuals . Shall not a war like the appalling conflict in Europe make men doubt God and disbelieve all good news of him 12 [ I - c ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
... likely to make us pray . This is true of whole populations as well as of individuals . Shall not a war like the appalling conflict in Europe make men doubt God and disbelieve all good news of him 12 [ I - c ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
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... whole school : ' Little boy , I excuse you : I have particular reasons for it , ' and in fact , I was never flogged during the three years I was at that school . That incident settled my mind for a long time ; only I doubt whether it ...
... whole school : ' Little boy , I excuse you : I have particular reasons for it , ' and in fact , I was never flogged during the three years I was at that school . That incident settled my mind for a long time ; only I doubt whether it ...
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... whole earth rises to meet a child's ball , just as truly as the ball falls to meet the earth , and that only the lack of sensitiveness in our instruments prevents us from measuring the earth's ascent as it responds to the pull of the ...
... whole earth rises to meet a child's ball , just as truly as the ball falls to meet the earth , and that only the lack of sensitiveness in our instruments prevents us from measuring the earth's ascent as it responds to the pull of the ...
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... one of the greatest Christian hymns : ' Were the whole realm of Nature mine , That were a present far too small ! Love so amazing , so Divine , Demands my soul ! - ' ។ That is to say that my soul is a 42 [ III - 4 ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
... one of the greatest Christian hymns : ' Were the whole realm of Nature mine , That were a present far too small ! Love so amazing , so Divine , Demands my soul ! - ' ។ That is to say that my soul is a 42 [ III - 4 ] THE MEANING OF PRAYER.
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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