Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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 Studd

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 Stanley

[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

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."

Charles Stanley

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

Charles Stanley

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.

Charles Stanley

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.

Charles Stanley

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.

Charles Stanley

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

Barbet Schroeder

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

Jan Morris

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

Arthur Symons

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Anais Nin

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

William Shakespeare

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

William Shakespeare

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

Donald Cargill

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Thomas Merton

Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

Graham Greene

You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.

Joseph Addison

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

Pope John Paul II

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

William Gurnall

Indeed all the saints are taught the same lesson - to renounce their own strength, and rely on the power of God; their own policy, and cast themselves on the wisdom of God; their own righteousness, and expect all from the pure mercy of God in Christ, which act of faith is so pleasing to God, that such a soul shall never be ashamed.