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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

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We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

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Prayer in the sense of petition asking for things is a small part of it confession and penitence are its threshold adoration its sanctuary the pr...more

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In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is...more

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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been born in God's thought, and then ma...more

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...You won't get eternal life by just feeling the presence of God in flowers or music.

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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the pr...more

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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, ...more

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The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does no...more

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Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly be...more

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It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no soon...more

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If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the ru...more

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Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more ...more

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For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

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A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.