Arthur Tappan Pierson Quotes
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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I have been under assault by the liberal media in the United States.
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I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.
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Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
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My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.
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True prayer requires no word, no chant no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly Ground
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Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
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True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
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Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
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Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
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And knowledge management is a means, not an end.
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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I used to wonder because I never thought I looked like either of my parents, but now I think I look like a conglomeration.
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As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.
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Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on the temple of the gods. To know himself, Linnæus declared to be the essential indisputable distinction of man above all other creatures. I know, indeed, in study nothing more worthy of free and thoughtful man than the study of himself. For if we look for the purpose of our existence, we cannot possibly find it outside ourselves. We are here for our own sake.
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There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
