"Prayer is not used to inform, for God is omniscient; not to move compassion, for God is without passions; not to show gratitude, for God knows our hearts. May not a man, that has true notions, be a pious man, though he be silent?"
— Prayer

January 1, 1970

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William Shenstone, Essays on Men, Manners and Things, "On Religion", in The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone Vol. II (London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764), p. 309.