Prayer

PRAYER is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

PRAYER Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest willingness. Archbishop Trench

PRAYER I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere elso to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me,

PRAYER It seems to me that it is of more than just passing interest that virtually every month the lectionary readings include some important passages on prayer. You’d almost get

PRAYER In contrast — these words from Jean Ingelow: “I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.”

PRAYER Then there’s the words of Bobbie Burns: “They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright.”

PRAYER From a more modern source — one day the cartoon shows little Ziggy standing on a hill looking up against a dark night sky protesting, “Have I been put