“I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“I try to be a Christian…I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.”
Quoted in interview by Merv Griffin, from Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, NY (1989), page 576.
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