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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence…
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading…
Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom…
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to…
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground…
Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had they spent…
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in…
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or…
God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.

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God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as… — William Gurnall
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. — Andrew Solomon
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Now, I stand alone on this rock, fighting the errors of this world, and establish the science of life by my works.… — Phineas Quimby
It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone. — Stephen King
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope
The writer must hew the phantom rock. — Carson McCullers
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To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different… — Samuel Johnson

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