Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

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

Richard J. Needham

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

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.

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Truman Capote

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

William McKinley

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

William James

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

William James

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what the 'right to bear arms' meant, but that is all fake really. The Constitution has to be interpreted in light of modern needs, and that's what they (the strict interpreters) end up doing in spite of all their investigations.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Richard Cobden

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.

Jim Paul

There are still communities that haven't begun to remove all the debris because you can't get to all of it. There is no agency that can clean up everything from Alabama to Texas in a short amount of time it is a gradual progress.

L. Lionel Kendrick

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

Jennifer Parker

Historically, the agency has not done much in the way of rule making.

Tom Glavine

I think you're going to see another winter where free agency is not as ... chaotic as it has been in years past, ... It'll be more like last winter.

Kevin Mawae

I think it's playing out exactly like we thought it would. We said as a union that in order for free agency to go off without a hitch, the owners would have to figure out how to divide up the revenue. It's not necessarily the percentage that we're asking but how they spread the wealth.

Colin Powell

Laurence Foley had devoted his own life to U.S. government service and to improving the lives of others through his work with the Agency for International Development, ... He will be deeply missed.

Peter Baga

I will always recommend an on-site meeting to see what a client's office and culture is like. Building a relationship with a temporary placement agency is important. Many of our clients are 10-plus years relationships. They say blue and we know what shade.

Ray McGovern

I do not wish to be associated, however remotely, with an agency engaged in torture.

Javier Solana

I am delighted in particular that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has now made a strategic choice to take the path of cooperation, and has reaffirmed the central importance of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency in underpinning global security.