William James Quote

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.

Lecture XIX, "Other Characteristics" - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or...

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or...

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or...

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or...