A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death that is not the great thing but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection not so much that we are to live forever as that we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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