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单词 passive prayer
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passive prayer
passive prayer n. religious devotion achieved by emptying one's mind (see quot. 1728).
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Passive Passive Prayer, in the Language of the Mystick Divines, is a total Suspension or Ligature of the intellectual Faculties, in virtue whereof the Soul remains, of it self and its own Power, impotent with regard to the producing of any Effects.
1883 Catholic Dict. at Meditation It is important to notice that in passive prayer ‘free will exercises itself in the whole of its extent’.
2001 Indianapolis Recorder (Nexis) 106 1 Jabez boldly breaks the mold of passive prayer when he has the nerve to ask God to ‘bless me indeed’.
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