Quotation:
Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in
response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does
not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no
urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things
that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate.
He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without
food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and
butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or
convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows
soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and
wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God,"
says Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His
creatures the dignity of causality." But it is not only
prayer; whenever we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It
is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers
should affect the course of events than that my other actions
should do so.
... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Efficacy of Prayer, pp. 9-10
See the book at http://cqod.com/r/rs045
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