"Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work."

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Source : George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

George Arthur Buttrick

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“O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?”
“For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.”
“The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.”
“When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.”
“A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.”
“We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.”
“The public is always right.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”

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