Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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.

Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

Charles Spurgeon

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

Charles Spurgeon

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Brian Goorjian

Rowdy's (Sheridan) in trouble ... but I think C.J. will be OK.

Donald Trump

Our country's in deep trouble.

Anna Quindlen

All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.

Robert Morley

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

T. S. Eliot

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

Scott Westerfeld

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

Sophocles

When trouble ends even troubles please.

Sophocles

Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

Stephen King

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

Mark Mobius

We were investing at this terrible time when emerging markets were all going down, some by 90-odd percent, and we are now benefiting from that, ... You had one crisis after another. You had Russia, Brazil, Thailand. We were investing in all of them.

Jefri Sirait

Maybe they're waiting for the situation to stabilize. But, whatever the reasons, the electricity crisis puts us at risk.

David Healy

If it wasn't GM in crisis mode and the whole feeding frenzy going on in the media, a small restatement like this wouldn't get any attention.

John Palmer

If they did it, it would represent a very serious crisis,

Richard Gere

If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia.

Mia Turner

Shelter is crucial and if people don't get that soon there will be a crisis of a different kind -- people will start dying of exposure.

Peter Smerdon

Hot spots come and go due to crisis and drought, but the vast majority of people (Africans) are just too poor to feed themselves when there's a slight disruption of their environment.

Kuniko Inoguchi

I think there is a sense of crisis.

Boris Yeltsin

is doing very little to get Russia out of the present crisis.