Use your imagination to see what abortion really is! Fight against the kind of social stupor that gripped Nazi Germany – the feeling that the problem is so huge and so horrendous and so out of our control that I just can't be wrong to let it be. Use your imagination to see and feel what is really happening behind those sterile clinic doors. If you could see each little handiwork of God and what it looks like when it is being crushed or poisoned or starved, you would say, this can’t be happening. Civilized people do not do this! The children will not be saved and God’s work will not be reverenced without an act of sustained sympathetic imagination. Otherwise it is out of sight out of mind – just like Dachau, Buchenwald, Belsen, and Auschwitz. It just couldn't be happening and so we act as if it isn't.
John Piper

Christian Science: Doctrine of ‘Prayer’

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Christian Science: Doctrine of ‘Prayer’

    ‘Prayer can neither change God, nor bind his designs into mortal modes – I have no objection to audible prayer of the right kind; but inaudible is more effectual.’
    No and Yes, pp. 39,40
    ‘If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is canceled, and that man is made better by merely praying, prayer is an evil. He grows worse who continues in sin because he fancies himself forgiven.’
    Science and Health, p. 4
    ‘Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates’
    Science and Health, p.4
    ‘The danger of prayer is that it may lead us into temptation’
    Science and Health, p. 7
    ‘The mere habit of pleading with the divine Mind, as one pleads with a human being, perpetuates the belief in God as humanly circumscribed, – an error which impedes spiritual growth’
    Science and Health, p.2

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