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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. – Samuel M. Shoemaker

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The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. – Robert Brault

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I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. – Abraham Lincoln

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