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WHEN YOU PRAY...Don't just plead. Make promises. Be willing to back up your prayer with activity. God puts limits on himself, and you are that limit.
Don't pray to God to put love in human hearts and then go out and ~practice prejudice.
Don't pray that the Church have an impact on society and then not be a part of having that impact.
Don't pray for God to give you a heavenly home and then daily treat your husband, wife, or children like hell. In one of Lloyd Douglas's novels, acharacter named Dean Harcourtsays to a troubled man, "Don't worry so much right now about believing in God; just conduct yourself in such a way that God can believe in you!"
WHEN YOU PRAY ...
Don't pray idle prayers. Be intense.
A soft and sloppy prayer is an insult to God's integrity and to yours.
A halfhearted prayer is like a farmer pointing at the seed in the barn and never going out to till and plant. Your prayers deserve intensity, for you are dealing with a power that can change the world.
Consider the Lord's prayer that you have prayed for years, "Our Father, which art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done." When thus you pray, you cry out unto the Universe that you are tired of earthly kingdoms where the wise arc ruled by fools, where the fields that should be rich with harvest are raped by war, where good people are destroyed by bad.
So then...pray...that the world be ruled by a kingdom that will let us live t together as sisters and brothers.
Where . no one tries to be a god. Where the law of love makes needless any human laws. It is, indeed, a prayer bigger than life, but sometimes we need that.
Where . no one tries to be a god. Where the law of love makes needless any human laws. It is, indeed, a prayer bigger than life, but sometimes we need that.
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STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
"Positive, powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt. Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)
"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is an extremely well written book that investigates what might be termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and Wild Thorn
"Wyrick has authored a wonderful examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian minister
"When it comes to invoking religion in support of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis, was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time. Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends politics."
Dr. Donald W. Shriver
Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"v. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history. Should have a wide readership."
James H. Smylie Professor of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States. Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would need in full measure as he led the United States through the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard
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