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prayer sacrifice expectations
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth. Mr. Rochester: Because you delight in sacrifice. Jane: Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value-to press my lips to what I love-to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice. Charlotte Bronte
prayer wind liberty
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
prayer excuse good-work
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. Charles Caleb Colton
prayer hypocrisy time-flies
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Charles Studd
prayer two people
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley
prayer talking want
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
prayer voice avalanches
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
prayer want arms
He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
prayer essence meditation
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
sacrifice america liberty
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces. Charlie Dent
sacrifice humanity heroism
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. Charles de Gaulle
sacrifice law punishment
In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.
sacrifice self denial
Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.
sacrifice sake our-relationship
You must never sacrifice your relationship with God for the sake of a relationship with another person.
sacrifice winning guarantees-that
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be. Brent Weeks
sacrifice rights atheism
Once you sacrifice your rights, it's hard to get those rights protected again. Dianne Feinstein
sacrifice too-much plot
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. David Shields
sacrifice men giving
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. Cesare Pavese
expectations i-can do-the-best
I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can. Carlos Beltran
expectations stupidity conform
It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations. Carlos Castaneda
expectations world too-late
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. Charles Dickens
expectations people words-of-wisdom
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
expectations woods grain
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
expectations ugly helping
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
expectations shining quality
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
expectations not-good-enough deadline
Meeting the deadlines is not good enough, beating the deadlines is my expectation. Dhirubhai Ambani
expectations assumption
All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work. David Kim