What John Calvin and Tennyson Said About Prayer

 

                             What John Calvin and Tennyson Said About Prayer

John Calvin....

"Our prayers must not be self-centered. They must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden which we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellowmen that we feel their need as acutely as we feel our own.

To make intercession is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson...King Arthur's Last Words to His Knights (From Idylls of the King)

"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Wherefore, let thy voice rise like a fountain for me night and day.

For what are men better than sheep or goats that nourish a blind life within the brain,

If, knowing God, they lift not up hands of prayer, both for themselves and those who call them friend?

For so the whole round earth is every way bound by gold chains about the feet of God."