The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to o

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. – Frederick William Robertson

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