Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. (Charles Bent)

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

Charles Bent

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