Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Charles R. Swindoll

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.

Delroy Lindo

There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brennan Manning

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

Brennan Manning

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Brennan Manning

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

Joseph Addison

These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.

Albert Haldemann

There's going to be quite a period of mourning once we lose one, just one. We know these creatures, these robotic creatures on Mars, pretty well now. It is going to take some digesting to get used to them not being there everyday.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

Karen Grant

Men tend to be creatures of habit. Once they have integrated a brand, they stick with it, unlike women who will try all kinds of products from a number of different lines.

Bhagavad Gita

Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.

Lao Tzu

Heaven and earth are ruthless and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs.

Ann Rice

God kills indescriminantly, and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves.

Stanley Hauerwas

Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.

Bea Arthur

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

Cindy Sheehan

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

Bob Holthus

He wasn't taking any deep breaths when he came back. He's a dead-fit horse.

John Fithian

I'm confident in our summer, and that we'll get a lead over last year. If there's a question, it's whether we can hold it when we get to October and November. Then we're holding our breaths a little.

Becky Chittom

There was no color in his face, but once I was able to get some breaths in him the color started to come back.