“If I could only feel he was with me!”
“You may feel his presence without knowing what it is.”
“I hope it isn’t wrong to wish it over, Mr. Polwarth?”
“I don’t think it is wrong to wish anything you can talk to him about and submit to his will. St. Paul says, ‘In everything let your requests be made known unto God.’”
“I sometimes feel as if I would not ask him for anything, but just let him give me what he likes.”
“We must not want to be better than is required of us, for that is at once to grow worse.”
“I don’t quite understand you.”
“Not to ask may seem to you a more submissive way, but I don’t think it is so childlike. It seems to me far better to say, ‘O Lord, I should like this or that, but I would rather not have it if thou dost not like it also.’ Such prayer brings us into conscious and immediate relations with God. Remember, our thoughts are then, passing to him, sent by our will into his mind. Our Lord taught us to pray always and not get tired of it. God, however poor creatures we may be, would have us talk to him, for then he can speak to us better than when we turn no face to him.”
“I wonder what I shall do the first thing when I find myself out—out, I mean, in the air, you know.”
“It does seem strange we should know so little of what is in some sense so near us! that such a thin veil should be so impenetrable! I fancy the first thing I should do would be to pray.”