“Men ought always to pray and not to faint.”
LUKE xviii, I
“Be not afraid to pray – to pray is right.
Pray, if you can, with hope; but ever pray,
Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay;
Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.
Far is the time, remote from human sight,
When war and discord on the earth shall cease;
Yet every prayer for universal peace
Avails the blessed time to expedite,
Whatever is good to wish, that ask of Heaven,
Though it be that you can not hope to see;
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven
Forbid the spirit so on earth to be;
But if for any wish you dare not pray,
Then pray to God to cast that wish away.”
HARTLEY COLERIDGE
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