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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.
our-love world god-love
God loves us for ourselves. He values our love more than he values galaxies of new created worlds. Aiden Wilson Tozer
our-love
All our loves are contained in all our other loves. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
our-love ruins toil
The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely In the flattering toils of philandery. Alexander Pushkin
our-love who-we-are remember
At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake. Ernst Toller
our-love way contradiction
We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth. Patti Smith
our-love purpose-driven-life action
Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action. John the Apostle
our-love care creation
God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator. John Stott
our-love
Our love cannot be measured, it just is. John Paul Stevens
our-love moments universe
We experience who we really are, and what it is we are meant to do, in any moment when we pour our love into the universe. Marianne Williamson
goes-on stories made
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Charles de Lint
goes-on muse versace
I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on. Janice Dickinson
goes-on cry-the-beloved-country destroying
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. Alan Paton
goes-on information culture
Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information? Alan Moore
goes-on spirit problem
When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!
goes-on firsts cheated-on
The best thing about being cheated on is I get to go on more first dates. Britney Spears
goes-on world pot
A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once. Barbara Kingsolver
goes-on dishes patches
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook. Jane Hirshfield
goes-on able sometimes
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living. Carl Jung