"All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours."

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Source : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.63

Benjamin Whichcote

#Prayer Quotes #Real Quotes #Done Quotes

“When quite young I can remember I had no thought or wish of surpassing others. I was rather taken with a liking of little arts and bits of learning. My mother carefully fostered a liking for botany, giving me a small microscope and many books, which I yet have. Strange as it may seem, I now believe that botany and the natural system, by exercising discrimination of kinds, is the best of logical exercises. What I may do in logic is perhaps derived from that early attention to botany.”
“The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.”
“This force is unlimited. It is always moving and always flowing. The ancient Hawaiians, the Kahunas, used the metaphor of the flow of a running stream to represent the divine force.”
“I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.”
“I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting”
“I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it.”
“Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.”

Source : Horatius Bonar, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS”, Lulu.com
“She responds by kissing me harder and longer and deeper. She loves me too. She's just afraid.”

Source : Julie Anne Peters (2009). “Rage: A Love Story”, p.140, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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