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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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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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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.

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It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what ...more

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For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

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When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they n...more

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The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thom...more