Restraining prayer, we cease ...

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian\'s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
 William Cowper

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 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
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I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
 William Cowper
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
 William Cowper
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
 William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
 William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
 William Cowper