Samuel ButlerPrayers are to men as dolls are to children.
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When you pray to God you are like a child playing with a doll. You play with it and make it go up and down and around in circles, but it will never do what you want it to do. Praying is like this because when you make someone else God, they can’t do anything for you.
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