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father heart garden
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart. Charles Dickens
father character thinking
"Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood..."
father home thinking
Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description. Charles Stanley
father religion answers
God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.
father waiting lamps
The Holy Spirit's power cannot be harnessed. His power cannot be used to accomplish anything other than the Father's will. He is not a candy dispenser. He is not a vending machine. He is not a genie waiting for someone to rub His lamp the right way. He is holy God.
father listening essentials
The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
father heart blood
Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us. Charles Spurgeon
father blessing thinking
Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing, because it has led thousands to a kind of peace before they have known their misery; restoring the prodigal to the Father’s house, and never making him say, “Father, I have sinned.”
father giving ungrateful
Sufficient for the day is all that we can enjoy. We cannot eat or drink or wear more than the day's supply of food and raiment; the surplus gives us the care of storing it, and the anxiety of watching against a thief. One staff aids a traveller, but a bundle of staves is a heavy burden. Enough is not only as good as a feast, but is all that the greatest glutton can truly enjoy. This is all that we should expect; a craving for more than this is ungrateful. When our Father does not give us more, we should be content with his daily allowance.
ties perfection mind
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together. Charles Caleb Colton
ties looks bread
Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.
ties answers spirit
It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer. William Shakespeare
ties government secret
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government. Bob Woodward
ties people political
Often dismissed or underestimated by political opponents, President Reagan had the most valuable weapon in the political arsenal: a bond with the people. Bill Jenkins
ties security-guards security
I probably was as bad as a security guard as I was as a tie salesman. David Hyde Pierce
ties may belief
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. David Hume
ties government guarantees
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. David Dinkins
ties shields hips
I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life. David Brooks
office funeral coffins
The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.
office words-of-wisdom castles
... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.
office president half
Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking Alan Greenspan
office house looks
My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office. David Morrissey
office library desks
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
office people individual
People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual. David Greenberg
office important affair
Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office. Dave Barry
office done casting
Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.
offices responsibility terms wives
There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.