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prayer excuse good-work
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. Charles Caleb Colton
prayer hypocrisy time-flies
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Charles Studd
prayer two people
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley
prayer talking want
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
prayer voice avalanches
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
prayer heart people
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
prayer personality moments
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
prayer thinking order
Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.
prayer determined life-is
Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.
exercise men sight
Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away. Charles Dickens
exercise privilege wealth
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.
exercise thinking sky
I tend to think that immortal souls, invisible sky daddies, and Santa Claus all belong in the same basket. The disposition of that basket is left as an exercise for the reader. Charles Stross
exercise self wind
We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope. Charles Spurgeon
exercise giving human-nature
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. Alan Watts
exercise doors training
To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors. Al Oerter
exercise errands destruction
I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction. Edith Wharton
exercise artist mirrors
The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side. Arnold Schwarzenegger
exercise bodybuilding winning
I never set limits or created mental barriers. You may have read that I imagined my biceps as big as mountain peaks when I did my curling exercises. This visualization process was essential if I was to gain the kind of mass and size I needed to win the mr Olympia contest against monsters like Sergio Olivia and Lou ferrigno.
desire holiness repentance
Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.
desire alive sin
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
desire desire-for-success fear-of-failure
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do Alan Moore
desire may grants
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires. Aiden Wilson Tozer
desire genocide treated
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days. Chinua Achebe
desire intense stage
You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless. Chin-Ning Chu
desire crosses chosen
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross. Edith Stein
desire balance sound
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
desire affection submit
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life. David Hume