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The devout feel that wherever God's hand is, there is miracle: and it is simply an indevoutness which imagines that only where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God.
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THERE is miracle: and it is simply an indevoutness which imagines that only where miracle is, can there be the real hand of God.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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Once, in days of livelier faith, you would have wept over the indevoutness of your present prayers, and joined them to the confession of your other backslidings; but now your heart is not more earnest than your prayers, and there is no index to mark the decline.
Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843
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Evil tempers in sudden flashes, unholy thoughts shooting across the soul, and kindling fires in the imagination, thoughts of self in holiest seasons, consciousness of self in holiest acts, indevoutness of spirit, earthliness of heart, dull musing heaviness in the life of God, -- all these burden even the highest saint with an oppressive weight.
Sermons. [Vol. I.] 1808-1892 1843
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