The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
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There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
A man can preach no better than he prays.
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
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