According to the American philosopher William James, without prayer there can be no question of religion.
We mourn the dead and console each other without prayer services.
Fishermen call these "days without prayer", when no one can trust what they see and boats dare not set sail.
Anglicanism, he went on, is in a state so delicate that "without prayer and repentance, it is hard to see how we can avoid some serious fractures".
And even without prayer in schools, the deist creed is coded into every national ritual we have, from the courtroom to the ballpark.
In a book whose main title—"No Peace Without Prayer"—is self-explanatory, the learned monastic author compares the direct experience of God sought by the Sufis with his own Benedictine tradition; and he finds commonalities and differences in Christian and Muslim views of Jesus, of Abraham/Ibrahim and of the revealed word of God in general.
But in her own NGO, it is a principle that "we don't do anything without prayer, because we are fighting against something which is very evil .At the micro-level where her group functions, co-operation between all the parties that sincerely want to stop trafficking (secular and faith-based campaigners and government authorities) seems to work quite well.
I have to say that we are in a state so delicate that without prayer and repentance, it is hard to see how we can avoid some serious fractures.In even plainer language, the division between (roughly speaking) northern and especially North American liberals, and traditionalists whose biggest stronghold is Africa, has become or is about to become unmanageable.
You can't be [Muslim], without prayer!' (subject #22) Figure 5 Prayer frequency and self-assesed religiosity, categorized by responses in Figure 1.
Action without prayer is merely activism, and prayer without action is useless piety".
As someone once told me; "Fasting without prayer is just going hungry".
