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“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.”
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.”
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“We do not know the play. We do not even know whether we are in Act I or Act V. We do not know who are the major and who the minor characters. The Author knows.”
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
― The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
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