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22295	Thomas, Aquinas, Saint	On Prayer and The Contemplative Life			.txt	text/plain	74334	5638	83	_Religion_, on _Devotion_, _Prayer_, and the _Contemplative Life_, and rightly into the secret things of God. And by the merits of such prayer service to God can be an act of virtue according as a man does In prayer a man offers to God his mind, which he subjects to Him John Damascene defines prayer as "asking from God things that are ought not to ask for definite things from God when we pray. Ought We in our Prayers to ask for Temporal Things from God? Ought We in our Prayers to ask for Temporal Things from God? Again, man's mind is meant to rise by prayer towards God; but words, God hears not the prayer of a man who when he prays does not give heed "He who asks of God in faith things needful for this life is the things a man receives from God: prayer is necessary,	./cache/22295.txt	./txt/22295.txt