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christian spring blood
I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood. Charles Spurgeon
christian prayer religion
Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ... Amy Carmichael
christian data religion
The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Thomas Paine
christian atheism loser
Christians are losers. Ted Turner
christian christian-inspirational promise
We must never promise ourselves any more than God has promised us. Matthew Henry
christian mother buddhist
I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy—it's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad. Maya Angelou
christian struggle fighting
The 20th century was a turning point; it freed and emancipated women, broke the back of segregation, and began the struggle to give justice to gay and lesbian people. But the Christian church, in both Catholic and Protestant forms, resisted every one of those humanizing developments. The church was on the wrong side of all three of those fights. John Shelby Spong
christian strong people
The missionary question is not, 'Where are there unbelievers?' and then send a missionary there. There are unbelievers everywhere! The missionary question is, 'Where are there people's who don't have any Christians in them or don't have a church strong enough to do the neighbor evangelism that we can do if we just want to do it?' That's the missionary question. John Piper
christian suffering contentment
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
mother lying lessons
Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know? Bristol Palin
mother looks geese
I describe my look as a blend of mother goose, cinderella, and the local hooker! Dolly Parton
mother motherhood tyrants
The mob is the mother of tyrants. Diogenes
mother running somewhere-else
I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had run off with her and was living with her somewhere else... (God took your mother, dear, because he needed her more than you do) which had never endeared him to me Dick Francis
mother dad school
I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education. Dick Gephardt
mother gray-matter league
My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter. Dick Morris
mother milk coconuts
Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk. Dick Gregory
mother father oneness
I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
mother kings taught-us
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf.
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book writing years
I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this. Alexander McCall Smith
book allure open-book
If you're an open book, there's no allure. Alexander McQueen
book night giving
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back. If you're an open book, there's no allure.
book men clothes
To buy books as some do who make no use of them, only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because they were made by some famous tailor. Alexander Pope
book fate men
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?