Passive prayer

among mystic divines, a suspension of the activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of grace.

See also: Passive

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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