“For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.”
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“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”
“And mental states may be inferred from actions. The tyrant rarely sends a handwritten note requesting the elimination of an enemy.”
“Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.”
“And please return it. You may think this a strange request, but I find that although my friends are poor arithmeticians, they are nearly all of them good bookkeepers.”
“(...) replied Mrs. March, who took peculiar pleasure in granting Beth's requests because she so seldom asked anything for herself.”