Your Father knows — This truth is rightly made the ground of prayer in one of the noblest collects of the Book of Common Prayer of…

Pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetition…

St. Augustine of Hippo: Just as the hypocrites are accustomed to positioning themselves so they can be seen when they pray, whos…

Matthew 6:7–15 digresses from the three chief acts of Jewish piety. Yet the content of these verses is certainly relevant to the issue …

For your Father knoweth. This single remedy is sufficient for removing and destroying the superstition condemned here. For from where does…

Be not you therefore like to them
. Do not be imitators of them, and follow their ways, who have only the dim light …

It is taken for granted that all who are disciples of Christ pray. You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian wh…

And when you pray. Above, regarding the work of almsgiving, the Lord showed that it ought not to be done for human glory.…