Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

Jerry Falwell

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

William Cowper

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Wayne Dyer

Each day begins with a prayer of thank you...

Wayne Dyer

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.

Rodney Atkins

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

Robert McAfee Brown

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Napoleon Hill

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Sathya Baba

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

Marten Mickos

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

Bible Bible

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Nellie McKay

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Caroline Knapp

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Myles Munroe

God’s will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.