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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.
fasting praying study
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. Abraham Cahan
fasting source findings
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. Dallas Willard
fasting hours spent truth
I spent many, many hours in fasting and in prayer, and wanted the truth (to) be known. William Leavitt
fasting died
There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight. Thaksin Shinawatra
fasting efficiency greater
I fast for greater physical and mental efficiency Plato
fasting hunger reason
One of the reasons intermittent fasting can work is that it reconnects you with what hunger feels like. Chris Mohr
fasting caution restraint
More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. Mahatma Gandhi
fasting physicians remedy
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within. Paracelsus
fasting throat ifs
If a fly gets into the throat of one who is fasting, it is not necessary to pull it out. Ruhollah Khomeini
common relation interest
The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. Agnes Repplier
common eyes gleam mind shine thy within
The eyes of us two shine like honey, our foreheads gleam like ointment. Place me within thy heart; may one mind be in common to us both!
common fact finally hard point sure worked
The fact is, we've worked so hard to get to the point where we finally see revenues, we would sure like to be able to keep it and put it to common use for our residents. O. J. Simpson
common endowments received
The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters. Theodor Mommsen
common musician taylor
Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift. Tom Odell
common enjoyed wisdom
I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom. Stefan Hell
common creating failures foreign ground israel kerry left might policy remarkable
It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Ted Cruz
common-sense brain important
Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear. Diane von Furstenberg
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch