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Prayer Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
- It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which…
- His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled…
- I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe…
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