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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.
way awareness force
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive. Carlos Castaneda
way like-you
You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.
way human-nature dont-change
Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
way looks spirituality
Things don't change, only the way you look at them.
way environment has-beens
A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous. Carl Andre
way study dropping
I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping. Agnes de Mille
way
Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness. Agnes Martin
way born
Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.
way sometimes innocent
Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way. Agnes Varda
obedience responsible disobedience
God is responsible for the consequences of our obedience, WE are responsible for the consequences of our disobedience
obedience practicals highest
Obedience is the highest practical courage. Charles Spurgeon
obedience obeying
You can only learn what obedience is by obeying Dietrich Bonhoeffer
obedience should strongest
It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed. Blaise Pascal
obedience results unbelief
Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief. Edwin Louis Cole
obedience piety
Faith is nothing but obedience and piety. Baruch Spinoza
obedience
Obedience is the road to freedom. C. S. Lewis
obedience strengthen work
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants. B. F. Skinner
obedience power quotes seem
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. Saint Teresa of Avila