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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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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get…
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I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, 'Action, Action, Action.'
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You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a…
— Pope Paul VI
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Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for…
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…
— Sinclair Lewis
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When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what…
— Michael Short
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Hitler's oratory moved people and appealed to their hopes and dreams. But his speeches malevolently twisted hope into some gnarled ghastly entities,…
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Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
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