[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f3sEeDc6F0144Vv7qCFWR7RgAi9t7vkRI8fvXiJMo3T8":3,"$fuVduPLAMAPnhIN1O5JF0rzuK1R-EaSVrafSsFec5v_8":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},73240,"Hugh Miller","H",30,null,"hugh-miller",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":119},[14,22,29,41,52,63,75,86,97,108],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":9},3082836,"It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":28},3082823,"Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. 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This suggests that the true power of prayer lies not in its ability to provide definitive answers, but in its capacity to acknowledge and navigate the depths of human uncertainty and the vastness of God's goodness.\n\n**How to Use This**\nIn today's fast-paced, solution-oriented world, we often approach challenges with a fixed mindset, seeking clear answers and quick fixes. To tap into the wisdom of Miller's quote, we must learn to approach our problems with a sense of humility and awe, recognizing that the complexity of our needs and the goodness of a higher power are beyond human comprehension. 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By acknowledging the vastness of their needs and the boundless potential of their resources, they can cultivate a more resilient and innovative approach to challenges, one that recognizes the intricate interplay between human aspiration and divine guidance.",{"id":76,"quote_text":77,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":18,"author":78,"source":79,"quote_tag":80,"commentary":9},2016057,"Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[81],{"id":82,"tag":83},5003340,{"id":84,"tag_name":85},32134,"degrees",{"id":87,"quote_text":88,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":18,"author":89,"source":90,"quote_tag":91,"commentary":9},2016053,"No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be, through the miracle of creation. From the evidence furnished by these rocks we are shut down either to belief in miracle, or to something else infinitely harder of reception, and as thoroughly unsupported by testimony as it is contrary to experience. Hume is at length answered by the severe truths of the stony science.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[92],{"id":93,"tag":94},5003336,{"id":95,"tag_name":96},713,"truth",{"id":98,"quote_text":99,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":18,"author":100,"source":101,"quote_tag":102,"commentary":9},2016050,"It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. 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