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"They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!"
"What returns does prayer show? None, if it is real prayer. For prayer is for growth. We can therefore, never return to what we were thank heaven, for we are growers. So prayer is a call. And its answered by a call. We call up and we are called on. Were summoned, told to advance, to grow. Thats the nerve of prayer, as prayer is the nerve of religion."

Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity or a deified ancestor. More generally, prayer can also have the purpose of giving thanks or praise, and in comparative religion is closely associated with more abstract for
"They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!"
"If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way!"
"Expect an answer. If no answer is desired, why pray? True prayer has in it a strong element of expectancy."
"Let Light descend on Earth."
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you."
"Four things which are not in thy treasury, I lay before thee, Lord, with this petition:— My nothingness, my wants, My sins, and my contrition."