What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so…

Thomas Merton
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What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer? ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.39, Macmillan
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