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North & South
By Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Ferguson (II), Travis Oliver
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Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of
sorrow, that places us before God, seeing both Him and ourselves in the
light of His infinite truth, and moves us to ask Him for the mercy, the
spiritual strength, the material help, that we all need. The man whose
prayer is so pure that he never asks God for anything does not know who
God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he does not know his
own need of God. All true prayer somehow confesses our absolute
dependence on the Lord of life and death. It is, therefore, a deep and
vital contact with Him whom we know not only as Lord but as Father. It
is when we pray truly that we really are. Our being is brought to a
high perfection by this.
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Thomas Merton,
No Man Is an Island
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