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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.
powerful language subversive
Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful. Carol P. Christ
powerful sadness warrior
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood. Carlos Castaneda
powerful fighting order
The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.
powerful responsibility reality
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture! Carl Bernstein
powerful eye moon
A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined. C. S. Lewis
powerful process technology
We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three. Pat Gelsinger
powerful brain president
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Alan Turing
powerful brain telephones
No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...
powerful men world
Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world. Alan Kay
moral-fiber law proud
The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed we have tried law , compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of. Albert J. Nock
moral-fiber people political
Our inspired Constitution is wisely designed to protect from excesses of political power, but it can do little to protect us from the excesses of appetite or from individual indifference to great principles or institutions. Any significant unraveling of the moral fiber of the American people, therefore, finally imperils the Constitution. Neal A. Maxwell
moral-fiber noise thick
There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber! J. K. Rowling
moral-fiber gambling gamble
Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society. Gordon B. Hinckley
moral-fiber self people
The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense of self-respect have no need for freedom. And the income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact. Frank Chodorov
moral-fiber way evolution-of-man
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. Terry Pratchett