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

Dusty Baker

He can't put any weight on it right now,

William S. Burroughs

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

Rob Bell

The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a business term, referring to the heaviness of something, which was crucial in weights and measures and the maintaining of fairness in transactions. Over time the word began to take on a more figurative meaning, referring to the importance and significance of something.

Robin Gibb

It's hard for me to put on weight.

Warren Buffett

I put heavy weight on certainty. It's not risky to buy securities at a fraction of what they're worth.

Zadie Smith

13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

Tiara Cook

I need to get in the weight room. She is good.

Milan Kundera

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Harvey Keitel

They have equal weight and you do the same work you'd do if you were playing a dramatic role.

Pete Carroll

He's going to have an operation. It's going to be a lengthy recovery.

Robert Rottersman

What I'm going to try and do here is take a rather lengthy report and summarize it.

William Godwin

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

John Burns

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Kate Atkinson

Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

Moe Ammar

It's a very, very lengthy process. We have a little over 500 members today, but out of the 500, we only pick four.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Jacques Chiron

It was the perfect length and everything... Perfect color.

Dr. Seuss

Shorth is better than length.