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We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

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We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity

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The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

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Austin Phelps

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Born: January 7, 1820
Died: October 13, 1890 (aged 70)
Bio: Austin Phelps, was an American Congregational minister and educator. He was for 10 years President of the Andover Theological Seminary and his writings became standard textbooks for Christian theological education and remain in print today.
Known for:
  1. The Still Hour (1860)
  2. The theory of preaching (1881)
  3. Studies of the Old Testament (1878)

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