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“Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.”

Henry Clay Trumbull

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197.

“It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.”

Henry Clay Trumbull

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 113.

“There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.”

Henry Clay Trumbull

Quoted by by Richard Foster in Renovare' perspective, Vol. 7, No.2, April, 1997.

“Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.”

Henry Clay Trumbull

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 315.