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Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.

— Rowland Hill

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We can do more good by being good than in any other way.

I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts.

I like ejaculatory prayer; it reaches heaven before the devil can get a shot at it.

Conformity to the world has in all ages proved the ruin of the church. It is utterly impossible to live in nearness to God, and in friendship with the world.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

Plato

To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

John F. Kennedy

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