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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Hannah More
Prayer, Soul, Feelings

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

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Prayer, Sometimes, Mercy
'Moses in the Bulrushes' (1782) pt. 1, l. 35

What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

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Prayer, Rain, Blessing
Hannah More (1857). “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain: And Other Tales”, p.333

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

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Prayer, Eloquence, Compunction
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 458), 1895.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

Hannah More
Prayer, Book, Reading

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