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prayer soul devotion
The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint William Wilberforce
prayer soul too-late
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.
prayer thank thoughts
I'd just like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I think that's it. Randal Jr
prayer giving-up drinking
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 Paul Evans
prayer our-prayers
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. Richard J. Needham
prayer godly majesty
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 people praying
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
prayer creatures breaths
Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
prayer knees straws
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer Saint Augustine
sacrifice
I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name.
sacrificed understand
He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have. Max Cleland
sacrifice mind make-up-your-mind
You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package. Richard DeVos
sacrifice men ideas
That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices. William Robertson Smith
sacrifice color tree
Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay William S. Burroughs
sacrifice self deception
self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation). Sarah Ban Breathnach
sacrifice would-be three
I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be. Sarah Hughes
sacrifice culture demand
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. Roger Scruton
sacrifice curiosity mistress
Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice. William Faulkner
expectations heaven soul
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
expectations shapes outlook
Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
expectations feelings nervous
I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here. Vinny Testaverde
expectations gold scarcity
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. Samuel Johnson
expectations dollars portfolios
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any portfolio encompassing one hundred stocks (whether the manager is handling one thousand dollars or one billion dollars) is not being operated logically. The addition of the one hundredth stock simply can't reduce the potential variance in portfolio performance sufficiently to compensate for the negative effect its inclusion has on the overall portfolio expectation. Warren Buffett
expectations results term
Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis.
expectations joy risk
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. William Congreve
expectations joy
False expectations take away joy. Sandra Bullock
expectations environment our-environment
We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations. Wes Moore