On The Holy Spirit And Prayer

A public-domain paper on prayer from E. M. Bounds, presented for focused reading and spiritual formation.

Prayer is not an escape hatch from the world. In the older Christian writers, it is usually the opposite: a way of standing still long enough for God to tell the truth about the world and about us.

So the invitation is simple: do not merely admire the sentence. Borrow it. Pray it until it starts telling the truth in your own voice.