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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.
understanding affair reason
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small Carlos Castaneda
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding
All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now. Brian Weiss
understanding wonder precious-things
Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder. Brian Cox
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
doe should sensible
She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe. C. S. Lewis
doe
One does not arrest Voltaire. Charles de Gaulle
doe authorship command
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe attention loops
Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention. David Allen
doe sense-of-humor persons
Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. David Rakoff
doe mets accomplished
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. Jane Austen
doe widows remarriage
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
doe sincerity emma
My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?
doe action futility
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - Janette Turner Hospital