“When we are first born into God’s kingdom we generally get our prayers answered immediately, but as we grow God teaches us patience by letting us wait.”

—  Ray Comfort

Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)

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New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist 1949

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