If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was true that God always acted in one's best interest, you would receive whatever He wanted you to receive anyway. Prayer, thought Allison, was a dreadfully unfair, rather unsportsmanlike affair, with all the advantages on one side. Grace Metalious
Some Similar Quotes
  1. I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. - John Henry Newman

  2. The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not. - C.s. Lewis

  3. Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To... - Jack Kerouac

  4. Let me tell you about love, that silly word you believe is about whether you like somebody or whether somebody likes you or whether you can put up with somebody in order to get something or someplace you want or you believe it has to... - Toni Morrison

  5. Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you. - Francine Rivers

More Quotes By Grace Metalious
  1. If God was going to do what He thought was best anyway, why bother to ask for anything one wanted? If you prayed, and God thought that what you asked should be granted, He would grant it. If you did not pray, and it was...

  2. Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

  3. It was as if each of them sensed vaguely that the Saturday afternoons of youth are few, and precious, and this feeling which neither of them could have defined or described made every moment of this time together too short, too quickly gone, yet clearer...

  4. Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.

  5. The public loves to create a hero.... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

Related Topics