Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us. It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n... WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. 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WILLIAM GIBSON What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? WILLIAM OSLER Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort... WILLIAM PENN The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation. WILLIAM GODWIN And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. WILLIAM JAMES Man produces evil as a bee produces honey. WILLIAM GOLDING No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. WILLIAM GODWIN Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. WILLIAM COWPER I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. WILLIAM GODWIN Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. WILLIAM JAMES Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most... WILLIAM GODWIN If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary... WILLIAM MORRIS The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves. WILLIAM PENN In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t... WILLIAM PENN