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Charles Brent, an unknown professional figure active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His life and achievements are not well-documented, but his influence and evaluation in his field are significant.

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“The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.”

World May Christ Prayer Christendom Limping

Author:Charles Brent

“A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.”

Men Mean Character Prayer Lows Standards Labor Praying To God Fling

Book:With God in the World: A Series of Papers

Source: With God in the World: A Series of Papers

“Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.”

Thinking Prayer Secret Praying Judgment Good Judgment

Author:Charles Brent

“Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.”

Needs Prayer Opinion Destruction Prejudice Surprise Pet Purification Refining

Author:Charles Brent

“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.”

Order Voice Prayer Attention Failing Special Listening Bears Ordinary All Things Tone Accents God Speaking

Author:Charles Brent

“A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.”

Men Way Needs Feelings Hands Faces Waiting Voice Prayer Listening Praying Quiet Practicals Knees Addresses Formal Gazing

Book:With God in the World: A Series of Papers

Source: With God in the World: A Series of Papers

“God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.”

Soul Moments Seems Prayer Silence Special Profound Contemplation Devotional

Book:With God in the World: A Series of Papers

Source: With God in the World: A Series of Papers

“It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feelings Joy Differences Prayer Praying Habit Lips

Author:Charles Brent

“There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.”

Prayer Exercise Dislike Healed Intercession Chasms Feuds

Book:With God in the World: A Series of Papers

Source: With God in the World: A Series of Papers

“Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.”

Christian Religion Prayer Christianity Praying Hardest

Book:The Revelation of Discovery

Source: The Revelation of Discovery

“The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.”

World May Christ Church Prayer Rooms Risk Cost Unity Dare Luxury Offering Unified Christendom Limping

Author:Charles Brent

About the Author

Born: April 9, 1862
Died: March 27, 1929
Known for: Author
Quotes: 16

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