Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentially a mystical phrase, also contains a surface meaning which is very valuable to those who grasp and apply it. The more Jesus becomes our standard and inspiration in prayer, the more confident we may be of a favorable hearing.
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WOLFE GILBERT If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government ... L. RON HUBBARD I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. L. RON HUBBARD A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc... L. RON HUBBARD A man is as alive as he can communicate. L. RON HUBBARD One tends to overlook the fact that all during the 30's and actually during the late 40's I ... L. RON HUBBARD A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of o... L. RON HUBBARD I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went... L. RON HUBBARD When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by d... L. RON HUBBARD There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published w... L. RON HUBBARD I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know ther... L. RON HUBBARD You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social... L. RON HUBBARD