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God always answers prayer , though he does not always answer human desires : " Ask and it will be given to you ; seek and you will find ; knock and the door will be opened to you " ( Matthew 7:7 ) . And there are some who remind us that forgetting the Spirit is tantamount to ignoring " the mystery of God closer to us than we are to ourselves " ( Johnson , 1992 , 131 ) . ' To you ' ( His disciples ) ' it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom , - - but to others , in parables , that , hearing , they might not understand ' " ( 28.319-320 ) . Seek first the Kingdom of God and its justice , and everything will be given to you ' ( Mt 6,32 -33 ) . But this very meeting with God , and with his fatherly love for everyone , brings us face to face with the need to meet our neighbour , to give ourselves to others , to serve in a humble and disinterested fashion , following the example which Jesus has proposed to everyone as a programme of life when he washed the feet of the apostles : " I have given you an example , that you also should do as I have done to you " ( Jn 13:15 ) . He took care of the sick , and took to heart Christ 's invocation : " To the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine , even the least of them , you did it to Me " ( Matt . " No longer do I call you servants , for the servant does not know what his master is doing ; but I have called you friends , for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you " ( Jn . When he addresses Dolores in the last paragraph - - " while the blood still throbs through my writing hand , you are still as much part of blessed matter as I am , and I can still talk to you " ( p. 309 ) - - the effect is especially uncanny because she not only is absent , and already deceased , but according to Humbert 's own stipulation could never have read the memoir anyway . Such service to people is also service to Christ the Lord , who said : " As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren , you did it to me " ( Mt. 25:40 ) . He closes that chapter by admitting ' The ideas presented in this chapter may be too optimistic and too idealistic , and it may be difficult to give concrete substance to them ' ( p. 167 ) . Scientific method is attunement to the world , not to ourselves " ( p. 44 ) . She insisted that cyborg imagery offered " a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves " ( 81 ) . He then proceeds to explain how God adjusted the flock 's makeup to thwart Laban 's plans and concludes that " God has taken away your father 's livestock and given it to me " ( 31:9 ) . This is the fascinating but also demanding truth which Christ reveals to us and which his Church continues untiringly to proclaim : " Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me " ( Mt 18:5 ) ; " Truly , I say to you , as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren , you did it to me " ( Mt 25:40 ) . what we have seen and heard / we proclaim now to you " ( 1 Jn 1:1 , 3 ) . Soon thereafter , when He appointed seventy others and sent them ahead of Him , He told them also to " heal the sick and say to them , ' The kingdom of God has come near to you ' ( Luke 10:8 -9 ) . Radcliffe Richards summed up heterosexual women 's fears when she said that feminists are ' deliberately unpleasing to men ' and ' if women want men they must be willing to be pleasing to them ' ( 1980 : 187-8 ) . And now he considers the creature " nearly " his own vampire " spirit cut loose from the grave and forced to destroy all that was dear to me " ( p. 74 ) . Darwin may not have fully appreciated how politically radical Vogt was ( it was his political activism that led to his forced departure from his native country ) , but he was quick to reassure Carus , ` The wish never for a moment crossed my mind that Vogt should translate my book in preference to you ' ( letter to J. V. Carus , 18 April [ 1867 ] ) .