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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. Charles Caleb Colton
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Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Charles Studd
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[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley
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Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
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God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
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He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
prayer essence meditation
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
prayer heart people
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
prayer personality moments
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
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Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. When we see the martyr to virtue, subject as he is to the infirmities of a man, yet suffering the tortures of a demon, and bearing them with the magnanimity of a God, do we not behold a heroism that angels may indeed surpass, but which they cannot imitate, and must admire.
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Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.
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He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
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I ate 'umble pie with an appetite. Charles Dickens
humility oneself
Humility is the proper estimate of oneself. Charles Spurgeon
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Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought.
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The truth is in the mystery. Akira Kurosawa
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I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water. James E. Faust
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She doesn't really understand this world. She's very strong but she's also very naive. She's not quite as little as the girls I'm used to writing, but she's definitely one of them in the sense of she'll undergo that kind of baptism of fire that used to be relegated to the male gender. Joss Whedon
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We did that on purpose. We wanted to give them baptism by fire and I'd say so far we passed the test so far. Joe Battista
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. Abraham Verghese
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One to six people are feared drowned after a baptism service that happened at the river on Sunday morning.
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We should naturally expect that the baptism of infants, if enjoined at all, would have been enjoined in the law which instituted the ordinance of Christian baptism. But this law is silent on the subject of infants. Adoniram Judson
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DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world. Ambrose Bierce
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A person may be Baptized, and yet not born again to grace, in consequence of not having the necessary dispositions at Baptism. Alphonsus Liguori
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We've been practicing officially for only a few days, so it's hard to predict exactly what kind of performances we may see from our guys this weekend. Putting them out there, especially the freshmen, is sort of like a baptism by fire. I'm interested to see how they respond.