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  ...no barriers. The only password is prayer.--HOSEA BALLOU.
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest: prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts; it is the daughter of charity and the sister of meekness.--JEREMY TAYLOR.
Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends, the other descends.--BISHOP HOPKINS.
Prayer is the voice of faith.   --HORNE.
We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.--COLTON.
PREACHING.--That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another, and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.--BURNET.
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than...   Horne, William Van

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