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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.
inward answers teeth
Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes;
inward honour conscience
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour. Arthur Schopenhauer
inwardly religion sustain
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. Kary Mullis
inward looks
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look. Dwight L. Moody
inward transformation follow-me
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. David Platt
inward cosmos looks
Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see. Kim Stanley Robinson
inwardly midst pleasing remain spouse true
In the midst of children, spouse and relations, some still remain detached; they are pleasing to Your Will. Inwardly and outwardly, they are pure, and they are absorbed in the True Name. Granth Sahib
inward body belief
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I. Jeanette Winterson
inward world limits
True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom. Jack Canfield
communion form good segment telling whom
When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form with the audience to whom you're telling your story. If some segment of the audience doesn't like that story, it doesn't feel good. Carlton Cuse
communion frontier open people saw
Many people saw on the frontier that communion should be open to anyone, John Browning
communion girl girls looking
She's going to be looking like the little girl making her first Communion that she should have been.
communion known lord treachery venom weakness wounds
The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
communion dressed experience gets gig good music natural rite sacred share wherever
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we share that experience, it's the same sense of communion as a sacred rite in Borneo or wherever it may be; it just gets dressed up different. Its good for the soul. Paul Weller
communion deserve great indeed judge man
If we would say that man is too insignificant to deserve communion with God, we must indeed be very great to judge of it. Blaise Pascal
communion funny hungry people time
I always have a funny story at communion time that underscores that no one is perfect, and that communion is not for perfect people but for hungry people. Greg Boyle
communion enjoy eternal immediate life prepared ready shall
Those only who are ready and prepared in this life for Christ, shall enjoy eternal and immediate communion with Christ.
communion imperfect offices praise prayer
Rapt into still communion that transcends/ The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. William Wordsworth