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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

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You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turnin...more

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As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself as one who has adopted a few new friends and amuse...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.

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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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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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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