A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
祈祷
Prayer
The first purpose of prayer is to know God.
祷告的首要目的是认识神。
Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
在私底下祷告，结果在公开场合大胆。
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
在爱情中自由要求的单纯的心，得到。
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
祷告需要更多的心，而不是舌头。
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
祷告使我们与神的旨意一致。
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
灵魂所戴的每一根锁链，在祷告的广度上都是破碎的。
God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.
神只在智慧上不给人祝福，从来没有因为怨恨或冷淡而不给人祝福。
Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.
有时候，对祷告最好的回答是那些神没有回答的。
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
在祷告中，人与神的距离是最大的。
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
当祷告的火熄灭时，忙碌的空虚就会取而代之。
To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand.
神也向那奋斗到底的人伸出援助之手。
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knee.
代祷可以被定义为爱我们跪在地上的邻居。
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If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than it is within our power to give them, and this will lead us to prayer: Intercession is a way of loving others.
如果我们真的爱别人，我们对他们的渴望将远远超过我们所能给予他们的，这将引导我们祷告:代祷是爱别人的一种方式。
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat.
若有人撒种错误的意念和行为，祈求神赐福给他，他就像种了稗子的，求神叫他收麦子一样。
The clue is not to ask in a miserly way-the key is to ask in a grand manner.
关键不在于吝啬地提问，而在于宏大地提问。
I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.
晚上，我躺在床上，希望看到一卷纸从天花板上展开，上面写着上帝给我的信息。
Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
如果忽视对神话语的学习，胜利的祷告几乎是不可能的。
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
继续四旬斋祷告系列:祷告是与神合作。这是上帝赋予我们的能力中最纯粹的一种运用——一种将这些能力与造物主联系在一起的运用，以实现造物主在创造这些能力时的意图。