“It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.”

— Theodore L. Cuyler

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 562.

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