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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.
devil daydreaming delusion
Daydreams are the delusions of the devil.
devil sound hell
The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake. Charles Spurgeon
devil leisure
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. Branch Rickey
devil judo not-afraid
I'm not afraid of the devil. The devil can handle me - he's got judo I never heard of. But he can't handle the One to whom I'm joined; he can't handle the One to whom I'm united; he can't handle the One whose nature dwells in my nature. Aiden Wilson Tozer
devil theologian stills
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
devil strings
It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance Charles Baudelaire
devil without-you tempted
You are never tempted by a devil without you, but by a devil within you, Elias Hicks
devils mountain people side time
We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain Carl Gustav Jung
devil not-afraid altars
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
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