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。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
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。
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.
我们的父不时从我们心里说的一个字，比我们不加注意、急促地多次祷告，更能成就我们的事。
What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
最妨碍属天安慰的是，你太迟才开始祷告。
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。
I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.
我仍然每天都做主祷文。它涵盖了我们与世界关系的很多方面。
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
我坐在孤独的炉火旁，祈求智慧:祈求平静地去回忆，祈求勇气去忘却。