Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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 Stanley

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 Spurgeon

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

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.

Alan Bradley

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.

Alain Resnais

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.

Al Roker

I've never been part of anything so great as those three kids.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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.

Chris Cleave

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.

Charles Spurgeon

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Alan Moore

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

Chinua Achebe

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Edith Stein

One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.

Edith Wharton

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

David Hume

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.

Cass Sunstein

I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Upinder Dhillon

We've got a lot to be proud of, but moments like this give us pause for thought.

Diego Maradona

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

Dick Cavett

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Edna O'Brien

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Charlie Simpson

Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

Eric Haney

It's fantasy, it's television, it's not for real. But it can put you back in the moment. I did have some moments where I had to turn around and walk away.