“All Christ's public acts were consecrated by prayer, — His baptism, His transfiguration, His miracles, His agony, His death. He breathed away His spirit in prayer. " His last breath," says Philip Henry, "was praying breath."”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 66.

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Scottish religious writer 1818–1895

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