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Both types of prayer are composed of reverent words which are addressed to God, [1] and the act of prayer is one of the most important Baháʼí laws for individual discipline. [2] The purpose of prayer in the Baháʼí Faith is to grow closer to God and his Manifestations and to help better one's own conduct and to request divine assistance. [3]
Bahá'u'lláh concludes the Tablet by enjoining Ahmad to "learn well" the lessons contained in the Tablet and not to withhold himself from their benefit. The special role of sincerity in life is disclosed in the text, not only as a condition for recognition of the "nearness of God," but as the condition that leads to the relief of sadness and ...
The Universal Life Church was founded by Kirby J. Hensley, "a self-educated Baptist minister who was deeply influenced by his reading in world religion". [4] Religious scholar James R. Lewis wrote that Hensley "began to conceive of a church that would, on the one hand, offer complete freedom of religion, and could, on the other hand, bring all people of all religions together, instead of ...
As the format of unbroken fixed-hour prayer developed in the Christian monastic communities in the East and West, longer prayers soon grew, but the cycle of prayer became the norm in daily life in monasteries. By the fourth century, the characteristics of the canonical hours more or less took their present shape.
Versicle: Make wisdom our guide, - help us walk in newness of life. Response: Lord, hear us. Versicle: Lord, give us your strength in our weakness: - when we meet problems give us courage to face them. Response: Lord, hear us. Versicle: Direct our thought, our words, our actions today, - so that we may know, and do, your will. Response: Lord ...
The 1962 Book of Common Prayer [note 1] is an authorized liturgical book of the Canada-based Anglican Church of Canada. [2] The 1962 prayer book is often also considered the 1959 prayer book, in reference to the year the revision was first approved for an "indefinite period" of use beginning in 1960.
My life is spent in joke and jest, So empty, vain, e'en at its best, This life of mine. But, Lord, beneath my mirthful face I hide a tear, And when the crowd laugh at the fair They seem to gibe at my despair And mock my fear. Lord, I am poor save in this wise: A child have I, And as I joke the best I may, He, uncomplaining fades away And soon ...