"Heaven helps those that help themselves." ---AEsop, From "Hercules & the Wagoner"
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Mat 7:8 "For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
I was thinking more of people who assume, "God helps those who help themselves" is an axiom from the Bible. It is not. This is a nice verse, but really speaks more to God helping us than us helping ourselves. And that (in many forms) gets to the heart of Christianity.
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