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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.
sunday vegetables smell
One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried. Carol Vorderman
sunday knows
Necessity knows no Sunday. Agnes Repplier
sunday coats week
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week. Charles Dickens
sunday night yorkshire
You don't want roast beef and Yorkshire every night and twice on Sunday. Brian Clough
sunday government law
You're not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You're not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don't know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government! Dave Barry
sunday church judgmental
I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction. Alanis Morissette
sunday people afternoon
The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters. Alan Bennett
sunday men winning
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man? Al Pacino
sunday shapes worship
If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday. Aiden Wilson Tozer
important world ifs
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? Aaron Swartz
important-values people levels
And one of the most important values of Barack Obama is that he will always level with the American people. Charlie Gonzalez
important humour irrational
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant Charlie Chaplin
important persons knows
It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now. Charles de Lint
important attention want
Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.
important culture missions
Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values. Brian Chesky
important aging seems
As we get older, things seem less important. Brian Cox
important culture popular-culture
Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.
important say-anything
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important. Brian Eno