On Prayer
17 March 2023
Accordingly, whether we have our requests granted or not, let us persist
in asking and render thanks not only when we gain what we ask but also when we
fail to. Failure to gain, you see, when that is what God wants, is not worse
than succeeding; we do not know what is to our advantage in this regard in the
way he does understand. The result is, then, that succeeding or failing we
ought to give thanks. Why are you surprised that we don’t know what is to our
advantage? … So we ought to yield to the Creator of our nature, and with joy
and great relish accept those things that he has decided on and have an eye not
to the appearance of events but to the decisions of the Lord. After all, he who
knows better than we what is for our benefit also knows what steps must be
taken for our salvation.
Saint John Chrysostom
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