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Many.. think that answers to prayer would involve arbitrary interference with the laws of nature. An analogy may help.. If a magnet be held over some iron filings the latter will fly upwards and cling to it, but this involves no interference with the law of gravitation.. What has happened is that a superior force has been brought into play-- another force whose action is just as regular and calculable as that of gravity.. prayer brings into action higher forces, as yet comparatively little known; but there seems no reason to believe that these forces are more arbitrary in their action than the physical forces. The difference is that they have not yet been fully studied and experimentally investigated, and their action appears mysterious and incalculable because of our ignorance.
(96:4)
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