A MAN may pray night and day, and yet deceive himself; but no man can be
assured of his sincerity who does not pray. Prayer is faith passing into
act; a union of the will and the intellect realising in an intellectual
act. It is the whole man that prays. Less than this is wishing, or
lip-work; a charm or a mummery. _Pray always_, says the apostle: that
is, have the habit of prayer, turning your thoughts into acts by
connecting them with the idea of the redeeming God, and even so
reconverting your actions into thoughts.