Thoughts on prayer selected chiefly from modern writers by W.E. Winks, Issue 30 |
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ARCHBISHOP ARCHBISHOP OF YORK believe blessing breath CHARLES STANFORD child Christ Christian communion creatures Dean MANSEL desire devotion disciples Divine duty earnest earth earthly effect eternal evil eyes F. D. MAURICE faith Family Prayer Father feel forgive gifts give God's grace hand hath hear heart heaven heavenly HENRY ALLON Holy Spirit hope HORACE BUSHNELL hour human influence intercession Jesus JOHN JOHN MCLEOD CAMPBELL JOHN SHEPPARD live Lord Lord's Prayer Luke man's means mercy mind morning Mount of Olives nature never night ourselves Parables peace perfect person petitions physical pleading pray Prayer.-Prayer Prayer.-The promises Psalm R. W. DALE religion religious request ROBERT SOUTH SAMUEL COX Scripture secret seek sense Sermons sins sorrow soul speak strength surely teach temptation Thee Thine things Thou thought true truth unto uttered words worship
Popular passages
Page 108 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, ' Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd,
Page 137 - And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray : and when the evening was come, he was there alone.
Page 108 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 137 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being open in his chamber * toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 23 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Page 158 - Jehovah's awful throne, Ye nations bow with sacred joy : Know that the Lord is God alone ; He can create, and He destroy. 2 His sovereign power, without our aid, Made...
Page 9 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 101 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 67 - O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee...
Page 223 - The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble ; and he knoweth them that trust in him.