Stirred and challenged by -- and asking God for -- this reality:
"What then is a real man of prayer? He is one who deliberately wills and steadily desires that his intercourse with God and other souls shall be controlled and actuated at every point by God Himself; one who has so far developed and educated his spiritual sense, that his supernatural environment is more real and solid to him than his natural environment. A man of prayer...is a child of God who is and knows himself to be in the deeps of his soul attached to God, and is wholly and entirely guided by the Creative Spirit in his prayer and his work. This is the only really apostolic life. Every Christian starts with a chance of it; but only a few develop it.... There is nothing that you can do for God or for the souls of men which exceeds in importance the achievement of this spiritual temper and attitude...." (From E. Underhill's "Concerning the Inner Life")
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