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Are Prayers Effective?
Do they work?
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Are prayers effective?
Do they work?
What do you think?
“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
I heard a celebrity say on social media recently that she doesn’t believe in God. She said that she believes in Nature. I think that’s another name for God, but who am I to say that?
I know many people who declare that they have no belief in God. They ask, ‘have you seen God? If you haven’t how do you know He exists?’ Again, I do not know enough to corroborate or oppose those questions.
Some people believe in themselves as agents of change. And when they are agents of change, who is there to pray to?
Respectfully, I am not writing this to prove or disprove any of these intelligent people, or their theories and tenets.
All I am going to state here, is that there were many times in my life when the only course, the only recourse…
