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Topic: Quimby Wisdom Section: 37 - Chapter 15, Part 02 - The Search Table of Contents to this Topic |
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The Search Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his work good. . . . Prayer that craves a particular commodity, any- thing less than all good, is vicious. . . . Prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Voltaire replied to a report of the saving of a sparrow by prayer: I believe in a general Providence which has laid down for all eternity the law which governs all things, like light from the sun; but I believe not that a particular Providence changes the economy of the world for your sparrow. Father Teilhard de Chardin had this to say about miracles: Personally, I have no difficulty in accepting miracles, providing (and this, in fact, is precisely what the church teaches) the miracle does not run counter to the continually more numerous and exact rules we are finding in the natural evolution of the world. (In fact, taking even the gospel marvels in the form they are often presented in, I feel obliged to admit that I believe not because of but in spite of the miracles I am offered. And I am sure that that is the unacknowledged position of a great many Christians.) |
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