There was a poor woman who lived next door to an atheist. He often mocked her faith and derided her as misguided and having an “imaginary friend.” One day he overheard her praying for some groceries. He went out and bought a couple of sacks of groceries and put them on her porch first thing in the morning, and stood nearby. She opened the door, saw the groceries, and exclaimed, “Praise God, He’s answered my prayers!” He stepped out and said smugly, “It wasn’t God that overheard you and bought those groceries, it was me that did that! Ha!” She said, “Then I praise God even more!” “What for,” he said? “I PRAISE HIM FOR TWO THINGS: the first is that He provided me with groceries, and the second thing is that He made the devil pay for them!”
John Gaston