Emotion, feeling - these are well enough if they feed the springs of power. Prayer, praise, preaching - these are all good and never to be dispensed with; but if the life to which they minister have no manifestation out of them, it is a failure. (Josiah Gilbert Holland)

Emotion, feeling - these are well enough if they feed the springs of power. Prayer, praise, preaching - these are all good and never to be dispensed with; but if the life to which they minister have no manifestation out of them, it is a failure.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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