"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires 
that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man 
in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."

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"Wonder is the desire for knowledge."

                 - St. Thomas Aquinas