"Your only safety lies in placing yourself in circumstances which will make exertion necessary, and which will secure Divine assistance. Never mind your infirmities. You have nothing to do with them. Your business is to trust, and to go forward. If you wait till the sea becomes land, you will never walk on it. You must leave the ship, and, like Peter, set your feet upon the waves, and you will find them marble."
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Edward Payson
Edward Payson (July 25, 1783 – October 22, 1827) was an American Congregational preacher. Born in Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father was pastor of the Congregational Church, he was himself a pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, where he remained from 1807 until his death.
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