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Prayer is a creature’s strength, his very breath and being; Prayer is the golden key that can open the wicket of mercy; Prayer is the magic sound that saith to fate, so be it; Prayer is the slender nerve that moveth the muscles of Omnipotence. Wherefore, pray, O creature, for many and great are thy wants; Thy mind, thy conscience, and thy being, thy rights commend thee unto prayer, The cure of all cares, the grand panacea for all pains, Doubt’s destroyer, ruin’s remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.
Prayer is a creature’s strength, his very breath and being; Prayer is the golden key that can open the wicket of mercy; Prayer is the magic sound that saith to fate, so be it; Prayer is the slender nerve that moveth the muscles of Omnipotence. Wherefore, pray, O creature, for many and great are thy wants; Thy mind, thy conscience, and thy being, thy rights commend thee unto prayer, The cure of all cares, the grand panacea for all pains, Doubt’s destroyer, ruin’s remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.
Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- Martin F. Tupper
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- Approximate author period: c. 1849 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 459 · printed citation: Martin F. Tupper · subject: PRAYER
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