Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.

Amy Carmichael

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse ...

Andrew Forrest

I dont necessarily go to church every week, but I am a Christian, and I believe in God and Jesus Christ.

Ambrose Bierce

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

Ambrose Bierce

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

Ambrose Bierce

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

Ambrose Bierce

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Ambrose Bierce

The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

Ambrose Bierce

WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

Brother Lawrence

Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence

John Wesley

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

John Wesley

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

John Wesley

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

John Wesley

God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.

John Wesley

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

John Wesley

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

John Wesley

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

John Wesley

On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

George Packer

I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire. In the extremity of war, character is revealed.

Bill Crawford

Stress is a signal that something needs to change. Suffering, is when we don't make the change!

Bill Crawford

You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.

Bill Crawford

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It's I.T. for life!

Bill Crawford

You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.

Bill Crawford

As long as we define stress as how some person or situation is making us feel, we will have to change the world around us to find peace of mind.

Bill Crawford

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

Carl Safina

We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in ways that we are not even close to bringing under control.

Carl Sagan

For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.