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God is always present, always available. at whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is god who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. the prayer which is pronounced for god and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.
-Jacques Ellul
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God Is Always Present, Always Available. At

Jacques Ellul
God is always present, always available. at whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is god who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. the prayer which is pronounced for god and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.
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