Let your combat then be carried on with prayer, and with resistance in the presence of God, and be ever clothed with distrust of self and trust in Him; fighting in this manner and with these arms, you may make sure of victory. What things may not be overcome and resisted by prayer? What things may not by resistance be repulsed, when accompanied with distrust of self and trust in God? And what is the conflict in which he can be worsted, who stands in the Presence of God with the determination to please Him?
CHAPTER XII.
In what Way a Man may gain the Habit of keeping in the Presence of God whenever he will.
THAT you may acquire the habit of keeping yourself, whenever you will, in the Presence of God, strive to grasp the thought that God is secretly ever before you, that He is beholding you, and considering all your thoughts and actions.
Or again, regard all the creatures as so many windows through which the hidden God watches you, and says to you at times: "Ask, and ye shall receive. For whoso asketh receiveth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened."
