How to pray is still greater than to pray; it is not the request but the frame of the petitioner’s spirit.
William Penn, The Friends’ Library: Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other Writings eds. William Evans and Thomas Evans (Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, 1837) p.219 as found in One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in America by James P. Moore, Jr. Doubleday, 2005. p.22
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