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 If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.  Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life. It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides. Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not. The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it. The future is only the past again, entered through another gate. A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.' I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable. All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit. The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. Everyman's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream. For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human 1 relationships. 
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