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“Prayer presupposes a grace which it is not within our power to obtain.” Blaise Pascal, Pascal's Pensées · insight
A translator explains a disputed fragment about prayer: God promises to answer requests, but humans lack the grace needed to ask rightly, so prayer presupposes grace.
Then God abandons the first in this sense. It is doubtful, however that this fragment should be included in the *Pensées*, and it has seemed best to separate it from the text. It has only once before appeared--in the edition of Michaut (1896). The first half of it has been freely translated in order to give an interpretation in accordance with a suggestion from M. Emile Boutro…
Coleridge answers an objection about whether infants can receive spiritual influence, saying the argument assumes the contested premise and warning against a purely arbitrary condition of infant salvability.
been an Apostolic usage, or specially intended in any part of the New Testament: though deducible *generally* from many passages, and in perfect accordance with the *spirit* of the whole. A mighty wrestler in the cause of Spiritual Religion and *Gospel* morality, in whom more than in any other contemporary I seem to see the spirit of Luther revived, expressed to me his doubts whether we have a right to deny that an …