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

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

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

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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