“Solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” (Hebrews 5:13-14 NIV)
Now each of these four needs is met by a different type of prayer. The right attitude of the soul to God is secured and supported by the prayer of adoration. The necessary food for growth is obtained through our spiritual reading and meditation, as well as by more direct forms of communion. Such meditation will also form an important stage in the education of the spiritual faculties; which are further trained in some degree by the use of such formal, affective, or recollective prayer as each one of us is able to employ. Finally, the work which can be done by the praying soul covers the whole field of intercession and redemptive self-oblation.
-- Evelyn Underhill in “The House of the Soul and Concerning the Inner Life”
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