When the devout pray, and their prayers are not answered, they do not take this as evidence which has to be weighed alongside all the other evidence that prayer is effective.

当信徒们祷告，并且当他们的祷告没有获得回应的时候，他们并不会将之同其他一些证据糅合在一起，来证明祷告的效果。

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How often, when His people are worrying and perplexing themselves about their prayers not being answered, is God answering them in a far richer way!

多少时候，祂的子民在担忧，在烦恼说，为甚么他们的祷告还没有得着答应，那知神正在用一个更丰富的方法答应他们。

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When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)

我岂因他们不说话，站住不再回答，仍旧等候呢。

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The usual tactic was to try make me look stupid by asking impossible questions or claiming that I had not answered their question when I clearly had.

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