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Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

— Richard Cecil Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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.

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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."

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