“O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, — these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 332.

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English Unitarian preacher and author 1816–1885

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