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It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love…
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us…
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When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each…
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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as…
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Christ is our hope, our cleansing and santification, our resurrection, life and repose. He alone is what we all need, and therefore,…
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Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man…
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The man who is poor in spirit desires and says with his whole heart, Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy…
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Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury.…
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It would seem, after this, that even when living upon earth we must live as if in the heavenly kingdom, dwelling there…
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Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ.…
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Christ wishes to raise men up to heaven, and has given them all the means to attain this; whilst the Devil, who…
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Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against…
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is…
— Walter Bagehot
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The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able…
— William James
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
— Philip Yancey
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Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think…
— George Santayana
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses;…
— Francis Bacon
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The devil's name is dullness.
— Robert E. Lee
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest…
— George Eliot
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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out…
— William Butler Yeats
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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…
— Howard Zinn
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
— Edith Sitwell
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before…
— Burl Ives
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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