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Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

— Samuel I. Prime Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

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.

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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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