I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
A man can preach no better than he prays.
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.