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。
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。
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
祷告，直到祷告使你忘记自己的愿望，把它留在神的旨意里，或者把它与神的旨意合而为一。
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
祷告是承诺。我们不只是在某些事情上与神合作。我们，全体人民，合作。这意味着合作等于承诺。
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.
我们当前的诱惑将是要求对具体问题提出具体的解决办法，并要求有能力帮助别人，因为我们已经认为他们应该得到帮助。在这种情况下，我们祈求上帝按照我们的方式来做。
Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.
没有心肝的祷告，虽然顺利，天上却没有耳朵听;如果没有感情在背后支撑，最好的短语也会消亡。