Why Mormons can't Pray

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_madeleine
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Re: Why Mormons can't Pray

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harmony wrote:
madeleine wrote:I don't have a belief that God works around us. God works through us, in our everyday lives. Right where we are, now.


I like this. I would add: even when we don't know it, or acknowledge it.


:)
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Re: Why Mormons can't Pray

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just me wrote:madeleine, I really enjoyed your comments. :mrgreen:


Thanks. :)
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Re: Why Mormons can't Pray

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Lex orandi, lex credendi.
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Re: Why Mormons can't Pray

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madeleine wrote:Lex orandi, lex credendi.


We should ever push the limits of our belief. Staid forms mimic death more than life.
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Re: Why Mormons can't Pray

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"NightlionIt was embarrassing and such a prayed did not lift
and inch off the table towards heaven.

You are right. A prayer is nothing but wishful thinking. You can pray all you want; you will get no response. But If you pray to my God SpagettiMonster even for ten minutes, I can mail you Ten Dollars to show that SpagettiMonster aerlly exists.
(I'm not joking).
"As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are"
Harold B. Lee, "Admonitions for the Priesthood of God", Ensign, Jan 1973
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