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The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

— Henry Clay Trumbull Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

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Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

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An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.

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A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.

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If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.

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