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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.
heaven care ordinary
No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven. C. S. Lewis
heaven storm tides
Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.
heaven world difficulty
This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.
heaven links golden
Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven. Charles Dickens
heaven suits burden
Heaven suits the back to the burden.
heaven balance floating
Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.
heaven joy sorrow
The joys of heaven will surely compensate for the sorrows of earth. Charles Spurgeon
heaven his-love earth
Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.
heaven trying paper
One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.
bereavement imagine loved-ones
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine it. Daniel Handler
bereavement amputation beloved
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
bereavement grief-observed pain-of-separation
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
bereavement matter serious
Pen-bereavement is a serious matter. Anne Fadiman
bereavement want goes-on
I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on Kay Redfield Jamison
bereavement trying mystery-of-death
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. Francine Prose
bereavement affliction might
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim. Emily Dickinson
bereavement care way
That what?" "That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I'm not saying In what way. Maybe you don't know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him," he says gently. Suzanne Collins
bereavement age unjust
When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. William Boyd