Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
Interpretation
Praying together strengthens the bonds of love and unity among Christians.
This quote emphasizes the profound impact that communal prayer has on fostering love and connection among individuals within the Christian faith. When people come together to share their vulnerabilities and hopes in prayer, it deepens their mutual support and strengthens their relationships, leading to a more profound sense of community and affection for one another.
In practice
In a church service, the pastor can share this quote while encouraging the congregation to pray together.
A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.
You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.
The good life is built with good relationships.
The first relative I came out to was my aunt Teri, a superior court judge in San Francisco. Her reaction surprised me. 'I've known you were gay for years,' she said. From that moment on I was comfortable in my own skin.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
We don't do enough to help older people recognize how much they matter.
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.
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