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Peter Kreeft brings his unique insights to this vital and oft’ neglected area of our spiritual lives. He claims he himself is still a beginner in prayer, and this book is for all those, like him, who feel that they are not good at praying but desire to become better at it. Kreeft offers simple-yet-profound advice and practical steps for developing a prayer life based on the time-tested wisdom of...

whole heart. But the heart cannot work without the mind. Mind and heart each depend on the other, like the chicken and the egg, or the senses and the intellect, or male and female. Let us see how the mind and the heart (will) are dependent on each other in prayer. First, the will must command the mind. That act of the mind that makes us aware of God’s presence—how does it come about? Only by our willing it. Jesus tells us, “Seek and you shall find.” Seeking is an act of the will: we seek what we
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