“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays”
“It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others”
“A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.”
“And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.”
“A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
“The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.- It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.- It is all pure.”
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead”
“Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of man”
“God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply”
“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction”
“As sure as God puts his children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them”
“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases”
“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”