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Another difficulty which some find perplexing is that prayer
seems too feeble a force to produce the great results often
claimed to it. Analogy may serve to clear up this difficulty
also. A small force, when applied to the sluice gate of a
reservoir, may release and regulate an enormous flow of water-power,
or, when applied to the steering gear of an ocean liner,
may control the course of the huge vessel. In the Bahá'í view,
the power that brings about answers to prayer is the inexhaustible
Power of God. The part of the suppliant is only to exert
the feeble force necessary to release the flow or determine the
course of the Divine Bounty, which is ever ready to serve those
who have learned how to draw upon it.
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