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faithworks24x7: We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming of God’s unwillingness, but as laying hold of His highest willingness. — Richard Chenevix Trench Pray & act decisively, & then release your intentions so God can take care of you in ways that you could not take care of yourself.

walk_daily: None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for him, he only can fill it. - Richard Chenevix Trench

DreesLeonel2: Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.,Richard Chenevix Trench,language,

MilkStart3407: Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.,Richard Chenevix Trench,language,

lwinckles: "Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness." —Richard Chenevix Trench

Born2Hannah9163: Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.,Richard Chenevix Trench,language,

Fighting_Knight: “We must not conceive of prayer as over-coming God’s reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness.” Richard Chenevix Trench

shadester17: (A Post, for: Tues., 02/21,) now...:"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness." Richard Chenevix Trench

ChikuChill: Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. - Richard Chenevix Trench Dinah Rau Art

SannahMcDonough: Some murmur when the sky is clear And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue: And some with thankful love are filled, If but one streak of light, One ray of God’s good mercy, gild The darkness of their night. Richard Chenevix Trench

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/Anglican archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807), author of "Studies in the Gospels" (1874) et al.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/clergyman Richard Chenevix Trench (September 5,1807), author of "The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems" (1935).

thepainterflynn: Today in 1890 Richard Chenevix Trench, prelate, philologist and poet; the New English Dictionary, later the Oxford English Dictionary, is begun at his suggestion, is born in Dublin

gshanks111: ‘None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul, that as the heart was made for him so only he can fill it.’ - Richard Chenevix Trench

DailyHallam: "You must almost have forgotten my handwriting." Letter to Richard Chenevix Trench, 25 March 1833.

plastic_bio: None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. - Richard Chenevix Trench

EnchantHeather: “Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.” -Richard Chenevix Trench •

shadester17: (Mon., 02/21:) "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness." Richard Chenevix Trench

worldaw8ed: (Richard Chenevix Trench 1807-1886)

_YvonneBurton: For certainly in itself there is no study which may be made at once more instructive and entertaining than the study of the use, origin, and distinction of words - Richard Chenevix Trench

andymayers: In 1857, the clergyman/poet Richard Chenevix Trench presented a paper "On some Deficiencies in our English Dictionaries" to the Philological Society; it kicked off the project that would eventually become the OED. These were the deficiencies he found:

quotebread: "Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, It is the very place God meant for thee; And should'st thou there small room for action see, Do not for this give room for discontent." - Richard Chenevix Trench

AgonyofChrist: None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for him, only he can fill it. The Most Rev’d Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886)

NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Richard Chenevix Trench (d. 1886), Joseph Leidy (d. 1891), Leo Tolstoy (d. 1910), Joseph Henry Shorthouse (d. 1903), Fred Spofforth (d. 1926), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (d. 1927), Herbert Henry Ball (d. 1943) and Mary Hunter Austin (d. 1934).

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/Anglican archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807), author of "Studies in the Gospels" (1874) et al.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/clergyman Richard Chenevix Trench (September 5,1807), author of "The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems" (1935).

plastic_bio: It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom. - Richard Chenevix Trench

Ryan_Connor: ...For certainly in itself there is no study which may be made at once more instructive and entertaining than the study of the use, origin, and distinction of words.” – Richard Chenevix Trench excerpt from: Dylan Saccoccio - Spirit Whirled: The Deaf Phoenicians

cainmarkj: We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God’s reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness~Richard Chenevix Trench

peelersandsheep: Re-reading the excellent 'Ants among elephants' & I see mention of Sir Richard Chenevix Trench, of the govt. of Hyderabad (one of the princely states of British India)- doesn't get much attention by contrast with his son (popular historian) and father (Archbishop of Dublin).

MandBBookseller: It is not everyday I get to use words like etymology or philology. On the Study of Words Lectures, Richard Chenevix Trench, 1861 MandBBooksellers

AdamLZucker: Richard Chenevix Trench throws down a philological gauntlet in 1857, as the OED project rumbles to life:

atsalumni: None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for him, he only can fill it.-Richard Chenevix Trench

shadester17: (Sun., 02/21:) "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness." Richard Chenevix Trench

dsouza_nancy: For we must share, if we would keep, That good thing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have; Such is the law of love. —Richard Chenevix Trench

s_benefield: Psalm 119:97b "It [God's law] is my meditation all the day." "Holy Scripture is not a book for the slothful." -Richard Chenevix Trench

NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Richard Chenevix Trench (d. 1886), Joseph Leidy (d. 1891), Leo Tolstoy (d. 1910), Joseph Henry Shorthouse (d. 1903), Fred Spofforth (d. 1926), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (d. 1927), Herbert Henry Ball (d. 1943) and Mary Hunter Austin (d. 1934).

ontheNthday: On the 2,122,126th day, God created Richard Chenevix Trench.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/Anglican archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807), author of "Studies in the Gospels" (1874) et al.

thepainterflynn: Today in 1890 Richard Chenevix Trench, is born in Dublin, prelate, philologist and poet; the New English Dictionary, later the Oxford English Dictionary, is begun at his suggestion.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/clergyman Richard Chenevix Trench (September 5,1807), author of "The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems" (1935).

Oxonvic: Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness. Richard Chenevix Trench

Oxonvic: The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. Richard Chenevix Trench

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PreachingRN1911: “We must not conceive of prayer as though it were an overcoming of God's reluctance, when it is, in fact, a laying hold of his highest willingness.” Richard Chenevix Trench

PstSeunSalami: “None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.” ~ Richard Chenevix Trench

PoetryTrain: Caliph 'Umar and Hurmuzan--A Poem by Richard Chenevix Trench (d. 1886)

BLprintheritage: "I wandered forth upon the shore, Wishing this lie of life was o'er; What was beyond I could not guess, I thought it might be quietness," Verse from Richard Chenevix Trench for the Feast of St Justin the Martyr (c.100-c.165), patron saint of philosophers

Myanmarwayne: Concluded prayer: And joy and strength and courage are with Thee! (Richard Chenevix Trench).

KimoteMoses: "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest willingness." Richard Chenevix Trench

navalrampandit: Grammar is the logic of speech, even as the logic is the grammar of reason.- Richard Chenevix Trench

flowingfaith: None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.~ Richard Chenevix Trench

shadester17: (Fri., 02/21:) "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness." Richard Chenevix Trench

TCUGM: "None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it." - Richard Chenevix Trench

flowingfaith: None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. – Richard Chenevix Trench

HomespunDevos: None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. Richard Chenevix Trench

somequotesbot: "None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it." - Richard Chenevix Trench

NORTHTRENTON: Happy Birthday to Richard Chenevix Trench (d. 1886), Joseph Leidy (d. 1891), Leo Tolstoy (d. 1910), Joseph Henry Shorthouse (d. 1903), Fred Spofforth (d. 1926), Houston Stewart Chamberlain (d. 1927), Herbert Henry Ball (d. 1943) and Mary Hunter Austin (d. 1934).

ontheNthday: On the 2,122,126th day, God created Richard Chenevix Trench.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/Anglican archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807), author of "Studies in the Gospels" (1874) et al.

Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/clergyman Richard Chenevix Trench (September 5,1807), author of "The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems" (1935).

MikeDallysays: For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love. - Richard Chenevix Trench

PstSeunSalami: “None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.” ~ Richard Chenevix Trench

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AnthonyLarme: "It's common today for Christianity to be associated with open borders and globalism. But it wasn't always so. It was once held to be perfectly normal within Christian culture for people to express a patriotic love of country."

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PstSeunSalami: “None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.” ~ Richard Chenevix Trench

XwhosCom: Richard Chenevix Trench (Poet) Born: Dublin, Ireland Date of birth: 1807-09-09 Education: Harrow School

JohnBarrett80: Archbishop and poet, Richard Chenevix Trench, said, “We must not conceive of prayer as an overcoming God’s reluctance, but as a laying hold of His highest willingness.”

LinguisticsGuru: Has anyone else read On The Study Of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench?

preachingtroy: Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's r...

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somequotesbot: "As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things." - Richard Chenevix Trench

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Book_Addict: Happy birthday to Irish writer/poet/Anglican archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench (September 9, 1807). "Studies in the Gospels" (1874) et al.

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Book_Addict: Happy birthday Irish writer/poet/clergyman Richard Chenevix Trench (September 5,1807). "The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems" (1935).

crispyberger: "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, it is laying hold of His highest willingness." -Richard Chenevix Trench

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chnorton1: None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for Him, He only can fill it. Richard Chenevix Trench

fight4theunborn: "Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness." Richard Chenevix Trench

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