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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
reading
I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read, Harold Bloom
reading writing imagination
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal! Robert Creeley
reading mean kids
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading character may
Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors. Richard Whately
reading ideas excellence
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest. Richard Avedon
reading knows
I know not how to abstain from reading. Samuel Pepys
reading men fleas
A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Samuel Rogers
reading exercise television-watching
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active. Richard M. Nixon
lasts detectives firsts
Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones. Rex Stout
lasts
Only peace between equals can last. Woodrow Wilson
lasts sticks want
In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble. Robert Carlyle
lasts last-words
No one has the last word other than God. Rob Bell
lasts firsts principles
Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last. William Blake
lasts honeymoon fortnight
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. Samuel Richardson
lasts force made
Nothing made by brute force lasts. Robert Louis Stevenson
lasts last-words commentators
for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word. Vladimir Nabokov
lasts life recovery
Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.