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So many believe that if only they keep on begging, God will magically put into them the good qualities which they lack. Is such a great result to be achieved as simply as that? The hundreds of thousands of disappointed persons who find themselves the same as they were before, despite months and years of pouring out their emotional petitions to a crudely and childishly imagined God, show that this naïve belief is either a misuse and misunderstanding of true prayer or a mere superstition.

-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter 2 : Prayer > # 89