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Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.

William Barclay

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William Barclay
Age: 70 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 5
Died: 1978
Died: January 24
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Classical Scholar
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
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In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
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