“All life will press palms together in prayerful adoration
of those who refuse to slaughter or savour meat.”
Verse 260.
Tirukkural
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Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
The Efficacy of Prayer (1958)
Context: Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate. It would be even worse to think of those who get what they pray for as a sort of court favorites, people who have influence with the throne. The refused prayer of Christ in Gethsemane is answer enough to that. And I dare not leave out the hard saying which I once heard from an experienced Christian: “I have seen many striking answers to prayer and more than one that I thought miraculous. But they usually come at the beginning: before conversion, or soon after it. As the Christian life proceeds, they tend to be rarer. The refusals, too, are not only more frequent; they become more unmistakable, more emphatic.” Does God then forsake just those who serve Him best? Well, He who served Him best of all said, near His tortured death, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” When God becomes man, that Man, of all others, is least comforted by God, at His greatest need. There is a mystery here which, even if I had the power, I might not have the courage to explore. Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist
About having a book
Letter to Mrs. Richard Watson (7 December 1857)
“Adoration in prayer purges our spirit and prepares us to listen to God.”
Bill Hybels (1951) American writer
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
“Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.”
John Steinbeck book The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Geert Wilders (1963) Dutch politician
As quoted in Content and Meaning of National Law in the Context of Transnational Law, edited by Henricus Joseph Snijders & Stefan Vogenauer, page 31, footnote (translation by Rick Lawson)
2000s