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 You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.  I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother. MOTHER TO TEENAGER ON SUNDAY MORNING: I believe I heard the clock strike one when you came in last night. teen: Well, I know how much you need your sleep, so it was going to strike ten but I stopped it at one chime. Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater. Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly. - Bible I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go. I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child. A heaven on earth. It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. It is great to have friends when one is young, but indeed it is still more so when you are getting old. When we are young, friends are, like everything else, a matter of course. In the old days we know what it means to have them. All rising to great places is by a winding stair. To tolerate everything is to teach nothing. There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots. You must lose a fly to catch a trout. Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time. We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be. 
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