The true prayer in time of great trial, care, or sorrow is, not that we shall be delivered from the experiences, but that we may pass through them unharmed. It is right for us to pray to be kept from evil, but there is only one evil. It is not sickness, it is not poverty, it is not human wrong and cruelty, it is not earthly loss – the only evil is sin. Nothing else can harm us. One rebellious thought will hurt us more than all the martyr’s fires we could suffer, or the longest and most dreadful agonies of pain we could endure.