“A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 521.

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American minister 1822–1909

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“Renewal of prayer calls for a renewal of language, of cleansing the words, of revival of meanings.
The strength of faith is in silence, and in words that hibernate and wait.”

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Context: One of the results of the rapid depersonalization of our age is a crisis of speech, profanation of language. We have trifled with the name of God, we have taken the name and the word of the Holy in vain. Language has been reduced to labels, talk has become double-talk. We are in the process of losing faith in the reality of words.
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