Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

William Wilberforce

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Randal Jr

I'd just like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I think that's it.

Richard Paul Evans

As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

Richard J. Needham

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Richard Baxter

I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.

Richard Baxter

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Richard Baxter

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

Saint Augustine

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Saint Augustine

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Henry B. Eyring

TRUST in GOD and then GO and DO.

Nicholas Sparks

if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.

Joyce Meyer

Trusting God brings life.

Joan of Arc

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.

Abraham Lincoln

Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear.

David Platt

If you can trust God to save you for eternity, you can trust him to lead you for a lifetime.

Steve Lawson

We must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand.

Max Lucado

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

Robert Browning

I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep

Tom McMillan

I dare say, he did more (publicity) in the preseason than any hockey player ever has,

Robert Wallace

I dared to lose and I won, ... It was a lot of hard work, and physical training and studying.

William Cowper

He that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

Vladimir Lenin

One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Washington Irving

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

Walter Scott

All is possible for those who dare to die!

Denver Johnson

I had a great job at Murray State, but I perceived some great potential, and I still do. Dare I say there were some obstacles that we've had to overcome.

Ovid

If she is chaste when there is no fear of detection, she is truly chaste; she who sins not because she dare not, does the sin