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SPROUL I soon realised that just because it appeared that way didn't mean it was true. As my thinking chang... RANI BORA, HOW TO TURN STRESS ON ITS HEAD The religious desire and effort of the soul to relate itself and all its interest to God and his wil... P. B. BROWN Prayer is communication. You talk, God listens. You listen when God talks. OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them. ... C... C. S. LEWIS One way to recall the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquility, is not... BROTHER LAWRENCE Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: When a man has had so much benefit from the gospel, as to kn... WILLIAM LAW Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no ... C.S. LEWIS For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you w... FRANCIS COLLINS If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT [He said] that it was a great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other ... BROTHER LAWRENCE Knowledge, and then love of G-d, is the homecoming all long for, the banquet or feast that... EDWARD WEISS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: I have come to see that I do not limit my mind simply enough... JEANNE FRANÇOISE CHANTAL He said: that it was a Great delusion to think that the times of prayer ought to differ from other t... BROTHER LAWRENCE Instead of rushing foolishly into a marriage because of impatience or one day looking back at our se... JOSHUA HARRIS Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to w... MYLES MUNROE My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our ... BILLY GRAHAM Beginning a short series on education: The history of our student movement [Inter-Varsity] has d... C. STACEY WOODS Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God... THOMAS MERTON The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be i... ELIZABETH CATY STANTON The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi... GEORGE MACDONALD A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. LEON TROTSKY either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you... OGDEN NASH Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also... FRANÇOIS FÉNELON The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that will our prayer. CATHERINE MARSHALL Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. BILLY GRAHAM Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way... BIBLE Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persiste... EZRA TAFT BENSON True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu... FRANçOIS FéNELON Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series ... ALEXIS CARREL The government will join, notwithstanding its failure to prepare, its neglect in co-operating with i... STEPHEN HARPER Beginning a Lenten series on prayer: If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would ... JOHN OWEN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and... JAMES E. FAUST An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered ... URSULA K. LE GUIN Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer: I h... MARTIN LUTHER ...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need. JULIAN OF NORWICH Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands... BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON The way to be a man of prayer, and be governed by its spirit, is not to get a book full of prayers; ... WILLIAM LAW The faithfulness of God is forever sure. LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT ... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperie... JULIAN OF NORWICH I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation... BURGESS OWENS Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness. JOHN PAUL II Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in ... JOYCE MEYER Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ... JULIANA OF NORWICH We are continuing to focus on air defenses. We have made progress, particularly against its command ... KENNETH BACON If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all... LYSANDER SPOONER Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise... DIANE ACKERMAN Continuing a short series on Romans 8: [Of vv. 14-17] For the Spirit we have received is th... C. HAROLD DODD History tells us that any attempt by a country to realize its interests through the use of threat or... HU JINTAO Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia... L. SWETENHAM Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Al... JOHN CALVIN Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on e... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l... THOMAS AQUINAS Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him. Conversing with God about all the things th... C. NEIL STRAIT To Him is due the true prayer; and those whom they pray to besides Allah give them no answer, but (t... QURAN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God. SABINE BARING-GOULD As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched ... MILAN KUNDERA Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep pr... ADAM HAMILTON Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 It is clear that he does not pray, wh... THOMAS AQUINAS Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: A... JULIANA OF NORWICH True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one af... MARY BAKER EDDY If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absenc... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
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HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. JOAN OF ARC It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is injury let me sow pardon. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is ... IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even th... BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of... TERESA OF AVILA We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our e... TERESA OF AVILA Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind... 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AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. FRANCIS OF ASSISI We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have... FRANCIS OF ASSISI How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the pr... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with whic... TERESA OF AVILA You can lease the peace of mind You bought a mask, I put it on. You never thought to ask me If I wea... SISTERS OF MERCY Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. TERESA OF AVILA Hope is the poor man's bread. THALES OF MILETUS It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. WILLIAM OF OCCAM What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. ROBERT OF DONCASTE True repentance is to cease from sinning. AMBROSE OF MILAN True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef... TERESA OF AVILA We BAND OF BROTHERS If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab... CRITIAS OF ATHENS My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un... EARL OF ARRAN I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil... DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ... TERESA OF AVILA Shun security. THALES OF MILETOS Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him th... CATHERINE OF SIENA I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. MENANDER OF ATHENS Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f... EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Most men are bad. BIAS OF PRIENE Character is fate. (Destiny) HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnera... CRITIAS OF ATHENS Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n... MECHTHILD OF MAGDENBURG Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS Manners maketh man. WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO [Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say. ZENO OF CITIUM Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee... MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war? HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ... IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan... APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my... FRANCIS OF ASSISI Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. FRANCIS OF ASSISI