Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny. (Henry Liddon)

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Henry Liddon

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