"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God."
— John Buchan

January 1, 1970

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This has similarly been attributed to Buchan, but is actually a misrendering of a sentence from the first paragraph of John Bunyan, Discourse on Prayer. Bunyan's original sentence reads: "It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled."