Quotations from P.T.Forsyth's "The Soul of Prayer"

This is THE book that I'm hoping to translate!

"Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking - with a will." (p.11)

"It is will and Will. To be religious is to pray. Bad prayer is false religion. Not to pray is to be irreligious. "The battle for religion is the battle for prayer; the theory of religion is the philosophy of pryaer." (p.14)

"Prayer is often represented as the great means of the Christian life. But it is no mere means, it is the great end of that life. It is, of course, not untrue to call it a means. It is so, especially at first. But at last it is truer to say that we live the Christian life in order to pray than that we pray in order to live the Christian life." (p.15)

"But to reach this height, to make of prayer our great end, and to order life always in view of such a solemnity, in this sense to pray without ceasing and without pedantry - it is a slow matter." (p.15)

p.s. I'm only half way through the book. It's a small book, yet big to swallow, so I must taste it slowly and gently.