Excerpt from The Realm of Prayer
"And my ending is despair
Unless I be relieved by prayer,
Which pierces so, that it assaults
Mercy itself, and frees all faults."
Shakespeare, Epilogue to The Tempest.
"The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable... To pray as God would have us, this is what at times makes me turn cold to my soul. Believe me, to pray with all your heart and strength, with the reason and the will, to believe vividly that God will listen to your voice through Christ, and verily do the thing He pleaseth thereupon - this is the last, the greatest achievement of the Christian's warfare upon earth. Teach us to pray, O Lord!"
Man's noblest art is the art of holding fellowship with God. In no other activity of the spirit do we exercise so many of our highest faculties, or direct them towards an object so sublime. For prayer is the converse of the soul with God, and the shaping of our entire inward and outward life according to His will, as the result of that converse. This is an artistry the materials for which we must find within ourselves.
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