WHO
PRAYETH BEST ?
Prayer is defined as the act of communicating
with a deity or higher power to express thanks, offer praise, or make
requests.
This
word also means ---appeal, entreaty, petition, solicitation, supplication, invocation,
etcetera.
The English divine Thomas Hooker (1586-1647)
said: Every good and holy desire, though it lack the form, hath in itself the
substance and force of a prayer with God, who regardeth the very moanings,
groans, and sighings of the heart.
The American clergy Henry Ward Beecher
(1813-1887) said: Prayer covers the whole of a man’s life. There is no thought,
feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it,
which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God
and be sure of His sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not
tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God
and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.
The English poet laureate Alfred
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) believed : More things are wrought by prayer than the
world dreams of. What are men better than sheep or goats, that nourish a blind
life within the brain, if, knowing God, they lift no hands of prayer both for
themselves and those who call them friends.
Prayers are both limited and
unlimited. You may pray for yourself, a friend, a relative, the whole mankind,
some animal who is your pet, a city, a state, the whole world, even for your
rival or enemy.
However, to pray for the largest
number of all kinds of inhabitants of
the world is most praiseworthy.
To conclude, one of the most famous
quotes on prayer which came from the
English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) said in the
concluding stanzas of his long poem The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
“He prayeth well , who
loveth well
Both man and bird and
beast,
He prayeth best, who loveth
best
All things both great
and small;
For the dear God who
loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
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G.R.Kanwal
28 April 2026
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