"The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer."
— Robert L. Short
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"All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions."
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For my restless heart which nothing finite..."
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