God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick, Prayer.
Prayer is not a magic button for getting what we want from God.
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Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
— Thomas Jefferson
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— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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— Tennyson
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— Jeanne Marie de La Mothe Guyon
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— Moses
Had there ever been a period when nothing was, nothing would still have been. Hence the Creator of all things is himself…
— Dr. J. Harris
