The Soul of Prayer

by Peter Taylor Forsyth

Publisher:

Faithlife

, 2001

Overview

It is difficult and even formidable thing to write on prayer, and one fears to touch the Ark. Perhaps no one ought to undertake it unless he has spent more toil in the practice of prayer than on its principle. But perhaps also the effort to look into its principle may be graciously regarded by Him who ever liveth to make intercession as itself a prayer to know better how to pray. All progress in prayer is an answer to prayer—our own or another's. And all true prayer promotes its own progress and increases our power to pray.

Contents

Top Highlights

“We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God’s great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer. Our soul is fulfilled if our petition is not.” (source)

“So we pray because we were made for prayer, and God draws us out by breathing Himself in.” (source)

“If our prayer reach or move Him it is because He first reached and moved us to pray.” (source)

“A chief object of all prayer is to bring us to God.” (source)

“Prayer is where our thought of God passes into action, and becomes more certain than thought.” (source)

Product Details

• Title: The Soul of Prayer
• Author: Peter Taylor Forsyth
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 1916

About Peter Taylor Forsyth

Peter Taylor Forsyth, also known as P. T. Forsyth, (1848-1921) was a Scottish theologian. The son of a postman, Forsyth studied at the University of Aberdeen and then in Göttingen. He was ordained into the Congregational ministry and served churches as pastor at Bradford, Manchester, Leicester and Cambridge, before becoming Principal of Hackney College, London (later subsumed into the University of London) in 1901.