If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

— Unknown Source

If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.

— Steve Allen, U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000

The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

— Herbert Muller, U.S., educator, historian, and author, 1905-1980
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