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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.
enemy interest permanent
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests. Carol Moseley Braun
enemy said guides
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. C. S. Lewis
enemy pressure ordinary
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.
enemy territory world
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.
enemy thank-god dies
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies. Agnes de Mille
enemy i-can my-friends
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
enemy may weapons
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. Charles de Lint
enemy interesting-characters fellows
Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. Charles Dickens
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
saint has-beens ought
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
saint lost patron
Each lost day has its patron saint! Bret Harte
saint sinner
One can convert only a sinner, never a saint. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
saint fans hours
I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. Brett Favre
saint sin confession
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. Bernard of Clairvaux
saint influence
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Bella Freud
saint goodness goodness-of-god
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Brennan Manning
saint
I am a Count, Not a Saint. Alexandre Dumas
saint behave persons
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society. Kurt Vonnegut