For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
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For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?
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Can even death dry up These new delighted lakes, conclude Our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?
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That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!
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Mark 1:40:
A man with leprosy came to him and begged him on his knees, 'If you are willing, you can make me clean.'
(NIV)
And a leper came to Him, begging Him on his knees and saying to Him, If You are willing, You are able to make me clean.
(AMP)
And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
(KJV)
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The walking of girls' vulnerable feet, The heart in its own endless silence kneeling.
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