“Prayer is for Jesus not nearly so much connected with resignation as it is with rebellion. In that fine book with the striking title The Faith That Rebels the late principal Cairns of Aberdeen points out that practically all that is said in the New Testament about prayer is said not in the interest of being reconciled to things as they are but in the interest of getting things changed.”
John Baillie, Christian Devotion, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1962, page 46
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