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.

Woody Harrelson

A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers.

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.

Jennifer Baker

I would say maybe there are more mistakes.

Joel Klein

I think it could take a year, maybe a little more than a year,

Kyle Waters

I think in the past year, he wrote maybe one check.

Sarah Brightman

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

Mark Calcavecchia

I thought somebody would shoot 7- or 8-under for sure, maybe even 9-under.

Champ Bailey

I was a little shocked with the recovery I made so fast. I didn't think I'd be able to do anything today. I thought maybe tomorrow, but not today.

Matt Rawitzer

I was just trying to stay even par or maybe 1-over on the back 9. I thought that would probably get it done after the way I played on the front.

Joseph Ramos

I think they'll keep raising the rate this month and maybe every month until the end of the year.

John Gibbons

He's getting there. He's not full-speed. We'll see how it goes. Maybe this weekend. We'll see if he's ready.

James Chu

Jon is a very strong kid. I really feel that he's the one that's been victimized. But for the sake of Jonathan, I'm going to forget about what Mr. Wooden has told me.

Juan Rincon

He's a really nice guy. I'm never going to forget (the home run), but I don't take it personal.

Jim Caldwell

He's a very unusual person that has physical gifts and he also has great intellectual gifts. He has a memory that, without question, is sharp as one could have. He rarely forgets anything and he can recall things from eons back. But that helps him, I think, just in terms of being the detail-oriented person that he is. He's able to maximize his study and preparation for our opponents.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Zhuangzi

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you have gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

Zhuangzi

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

Vladimir Putin

We should not forget either about the interests of the regular consumers who need the prices in supermarkets to be a little bit lower.

Sandra Cisneros

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

Alkaline Trio

Remember when I said I love you? Well, forget it, I take it back.