Excerpt from Thoughts on Prayer
Prayer is natural to men. The knowledge of our own weakness is soon forced upon us; but with this conviction there comes another, the sense of dependence on One great, loving, and wise. Out of these springs the necessity of prayer, which is the language of the frail to the mighty - the confession of need, and the instinct of trust.
Every known religion attests this irresistible impulse to pray. Though under the most degraded forms, or lost sight of in the most splendid ceremonial, - the rudest and most revolting Fetichism to the most gorgeous ritual, - the instinct of prayer is found the inspiring impulse of every kind of religious worship.
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