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Octavius Winslow , also known as "The Pilgrim's Companion", was a prominent 19th-century evangelical preacher in England and America. A Baptist minister for most of his life and contemporary of Charles Spurgeon and J. C. Ryle, he seceded to the Anglican church in his last decade. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. August 1808 – 5. March 1878
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Famous Octavius Winslow Quotes

“The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.”

Octavius Winslow

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 144.

“Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.”

Octavius Winslow

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 458.

“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more — there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

Octavius Winslow

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 574.

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