
“Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.”
P. 457.
The Wounded Healer (1972)
“Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.”
P. 457.
“The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.”
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.
“The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 33; also quoted with Americanized spelling as The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Context: The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Its overshadowing formlessness obsesses the mind. The way to beat an enemy is to define him clearly, to analyse and measure him. Once an idea is intelligently grasped, it ceases to threaten the mind with the terrors of the unknown.
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing”
As quoted by George Sweeting (senior pastor at Moody Church and former President of the Moody Bible Institute), in Talking it over http://books.google.es/books?id=3U47r8goSvwC&q=%22To+be+a+Christian+without+prayer+is+no+more+possible+than+to+be+alive+without+breathing%22&dq=%22To+be+a+Christian+without+prayer+is+no+more+possible+than+to+be+alive+without+breathing%22&hl=es&sa=X&ei=zJ47UubGKKasyAHvuoDoCA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwATgK (Sep. 1, 1979), p. 88. and The Basics of the Christian Life (Aug 1, 1983), p. 83. No earlier sources are pointed out.
Disputed
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”
"The Obscurity of the Poet", p. 16
Poetry and the Age (1953)
With Open Hands (1972)
Context: Prayer leads you to see new paths and to hear new melodies in the air. Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you freedom to go and to stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land. Praying is not simply some necessary compartment in the daily schedule of a Christian or a source of support in time of need, nor is it restricted to Sunday mornings or mealtimes. Praying is living. It is eating and drinking, action and rest, teaching and learning, playing and working. Praying pervades every aspect of our lives. It is the unceasing recognition that God is wherever we are, always inviting us to come closer and to celebrate the divine gift of being alive.
"Epitaph", written for himself (1833)