“The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 368.
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British minister 1826–1910Related quotes
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in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
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Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
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