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Bunyan points out, for example, how the Pharisees of Jesus’ day no doubt phrased their prayers well but were condemned because they fell short of “pouring out” their hearts to God (IWP, 38). Without help from the Holy Spirit in purifying and pouring out the heart, he writes, one who prays is “hyp- ocritical, cold, and unseemly” and “abominable to God” (IWP, 37).
The hypocrisy God detests, then, is importantly not a matter of say- ing one thing and doing another, but of saying one thing and feeli
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― Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
― Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
