“Moreover, those who pray should not come to God with fruitless or naked prayers. Petition is ineffectual when it is a barren entreaty that beseeches God. For as every tree that bringeth not forth fruit is cut down and cast into the fire; assuredly also, words that do not bear fruit cannot deserve anything of God, beca…”
Cyprian, 3th c. — Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer
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2A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
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1There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
— Acts 10:2 —
3He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
4And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.