"Our prayer and God's mercy are like two……" — Mark Hopkins
"Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends."
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11 Quotes by Mark Hopkins
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Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by…
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But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either…
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Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
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Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.
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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
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Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and…
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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to…
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We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered…
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The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race…
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No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the…
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More Ascends Quotes
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and…
— James Allen
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or…
— Rajneesh
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May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he…
— Ambrose
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The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match,…
— Confucius
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Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some…
— Ole Hallesby
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the…
— Pavel Florensky
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Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
— Russell Kirk
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the…
— C.S. Lewis
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If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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