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Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers.…
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The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate…
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Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most…
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Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how…
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer,…
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God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not…
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but…
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Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the…
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When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
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When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall…
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Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is…
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Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside…
— Anthony of Padua
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The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and…
— Howard Zinn
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A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.
— Danny DeVito
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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that…
— James Russell Lowell
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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
— Max Beckmann
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When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.
— Dwight L. Moody
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I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not…
— Sullivan Ballou
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Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through.…
— Thomas Brooks
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The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.
— Conrad Aiken
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Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out…
— Sherman Alexie
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Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like…
— Laurie Lee
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Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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