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Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.

— 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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

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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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