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Octavius Winslow
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“The everlasting covenant which God has made with Jesus, and through Jesus with all His beloved people, individually, is a strong ground of consolation amidst the tremblings of human hope, the fluctuations of creature things, and the instability of all that earth calls good.”
Octavius Winslow (1808–1878) first seen 1853 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Midnight Harmonies (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1853), "Songs in the Night", p. 32.
“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more—there is action. […] The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look—it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”
Octavius Winslow (1808–1878) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Sympathy of Christ with Man: Its Teaching and Consolation (London: Janes Nisbet, 1862), Preface, pp. iii–iv.
“Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.”
Octavius Winslow (1808–1878) said by 1878 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source