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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
odds miracle making-love
The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet. Yoko Ono
odds law rebel
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds. William Petersen
odds people opinion
Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion. Evander Holyfield
odds cells people
I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they'd be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today's identical twins. Lewis Thomas
odds criticism genius
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
odds flare-up flames
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds. Karen Hesse
odds able directors
If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy. Julianne Moore
odds color add
Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it. Lloyd Alexander
odds two worry
The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every f*cking day. Jon Stewart
vanity world true-value
The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.
vanity facts recognition
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. William Saroyan
vanity secret chiefs
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson
vanity emulation folly
Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.
vanity
Vanity is as old as the mammoth.
vanity proud pedants
Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. Wilkie Collins
vanity clothes envy
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one. Veronica Roth
vanity choices idolatry
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. William Hazlitt
vanity admiration driven
Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.