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title: 'Theologizing on Our Knees'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-12-07
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-theologizing-on-our-knees
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# Theologizing on Our Knees

“In this great book, our first Moderator bids us ‘theologize on our knees.’” — [**William C. Robinson**](/authors/william-childs-robinson), Preface to B.M. Palmer, *Theology of Prayer* (1980 ed.)

“This consciousness of dependence finds its only full expression in prayer; we lean upon God, and are at rest. It may pour itself forth with a pathos that stirs the heart of sympathy, or despair may muffle ‘the groanings which cannot be uttered’; in either case the intelligent recognition of creature-helplessness leaning upon divine power is the kneeling posture of the soul in prayer.
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As soon as we truly kneel, we touch with our thought the throne of the Most High.” — [**Benjamin Morgan Palmer**](/authors/benjamin-morgan-palmer) (1818-1902), *Theology of Prayer* (1894), pp. 16, 348