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father heart garden
How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart. Charles Dickens
father religion answers
God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good. Charles Stanley
father heart blood
Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us. Charles Spurgeon
father men hands
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.
father military men
Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life. Alan Bradley
father heart good-day
We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over. Alain Resnais
fathers-day father kids
I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids. Al Roker
father enemy rooms
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. Al Pacino
father eye world
O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things. The world has been too much with me. Thou hast been here and I knew it not. I have been blind to Thy Presence. Open my eyes that I may behold Thee in and around me. For Christ's sake, Amen. Aiden Wilson Tozer
achievement done littles
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
achievement way ruins
Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. Edith Wharton
achievement proud ulster
As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud. David Trimble
achievement belief
Our achievements are generally limited only by the beliefs we impose on ourselves. Bear Grylls
achievement push
We always have to push for better achievement. Orlando Perez
achievement civilized culture effect express facility mediocrity possible speed spread view wealth
Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
achievement benefits greatest-achievement
The greatest achievements are those that benefit others. Denis Waitley
achievement champion desire
Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear
achievement greatest-achievement
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
drug president shapes
Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting. David Icke
drug kind epiphany
If you have too many epiphanies, you're on some kind of drug. Barry Diller
drug pills weight
I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight. Carre Otis
drug your-smile genius
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy. Charlie Chaplin
drug
Religion is bad, drugs are good. Bill Maher
drug friendly monsters
Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre. Bryan Fuller
drug brain substance
All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience. Dennis McKenna
drug rattlesnakes bother
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? Elizabeth Moon
drug moderation including
Moderation in all things - including moderation. Benjamin Franklin