Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Cathy Freeman

Being overseas at the time it all kind of happened was perfect because I had no idea that it was going to attract so much media attention and provoke these lovely people calling in and offering up their opinions and advice.

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Derek Jeter

One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Chang-Rae Lee

No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.

Bill McKibben

If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?

Bill Walsh

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

Tom Daschle

What we're offering is real jobs, real opportunity and real prosperity -- a plan that works for our country,

Brian Eno

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Billy Collins

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one,

Dean Ornish

Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

Daniel Gilbert

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward destitution.

Ed Miliband

We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and businesses

Dave Reichert

Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Amy Ray

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

Brother Lawrence

My God, since you are with me and since, by Your will, I must occupy myself with external things, please grant me the grace to remain with You, in Your presence. Work with me, so that my work might be the very best. Receive as an offering of love both my work and all my affections.

Edmund Husserl

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Conan O'Brien

Mexico is offering a $3.8 million reward for information leading to the capture of the escaped billionaire drug lord, El Chapo. Mexico said they'll get the money by borrowing it from El Chapo.

Dan Jones

Sears is offering free $10 gift cards to the first few hundred shoppers. So that may have something to do with the early crowd.

Anne Michaels

When you put a tremendous amount of love into your work, as in any relationship, you can't know - you can only hope - that what you're offering will in some way be received. You shape your love to artistic demands, to the rigors of your genre. But still, it's a labor of love, and it's the nature of love that you must give it freely.

Donald T. Regan

One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.

Claudia Rankine

The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

Corrie Ten Boom

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

Corita Kent

Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.

Alphonsus Liguori

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.

There are so many different ways they can do it, we're offering as much as we can.

Alex Berenson

While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.

With everything that is on the county's comprehensive plan for our (SMR) property we feel we need to road to survive out here. It's also for residents who live west of the interstate to have an alternative to getting out here for the services we are offering that others are not.

We're not ready to put out the Java2 version yet, so we'll make the JDK 1.18 offering something to deploy in the interim,