Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.


Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience (ed. 1870)

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it;...

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it;...

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it;...

Prayer is often an argument of laziness: Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it;...