 ... can relieve it; the voice of sin to him who alone can pardon it. It is the urgency of poverty, the prostration of humility, the fervency of penitence, the confidence of trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness,...  The Spirit of Prayer - עמוד 16מאת Hannah More - 1826 - 226 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Hannah More - 1811 - 226 דפים
...trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It...confession the natural language of guilty creatures ; gratitude the spontaneous expression of pardoned sinners. Prayerjs desire. It is not a conception... | |
 | Hannah More - 1811 - 220 דפים
...trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It...confession the natural language of guilty creatures ; gratitude the spontaneous expression of pardoned sinners. Prayer is desire. It is not a conception... | |
 | Hannah More - 1812 - 248 דפים
...ofhelpleasness, hut the feeling of it ; not figuresof speech, but compunction of soul. It is the " Lord save its we perish" of drowning Peter; the cry of faith to the ear of m«rcy. Adoration is the nohlest employment of created heings; confession the natural language of guilty... | |
 | 1847 - 760 דפים
...not eloquence, but earnestness; not : the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not the figures of speech, but compunction of soul ; it is...drowning Peter ; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy. Prayer is desire : it is not a conception of the mind, nor a mere effort of the intellect, nor an act... | |
 | Hannah More - 1818 - 340 דפים
...trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It...confession the natural language of guilty creatures; gratitude the spontaneous expression of pardoned sinners. Prayer is desire. It is not a conception... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 דפים
...trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It...drowning Peter ; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy."* This is acceptable prayer. But how often are our devotions a mere £orm to satisfy our conscience.... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 312 דפים
...trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It is the Lord sa ve us, we perish of d ro vraing Peter ; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy."* This is acceptable... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 דפים
...of trust. It is not eloquence, but earnestness ; not the definition of want, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It...drowning Peter ; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy." 2. That our prayers may be acceptable, they must be for such things only as God hath promised to give.... | |
 | John Dennant - 1826 - 350 דפים
...trust. It is not eloquence but earnestness ; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It...drowning Peter ; the cry of faith to the ear of mercy." We do not pray to inform God of our wants, but to express our sense of the wants which he already knows.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1827 - 542 דפים
...It is not eloquence, but earnestness : not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. It is the ' Lord save us or we perish' of drowning Peter ; the cry of faith to the oar of mercv Adoration is the noblest employment... | |
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