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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.


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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
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JAMES M. BARRIE God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES M. BARRIE God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
JOHN M. BARRIE I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes.
NATHANIEL RICH It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that withou...
GEORGE WILL God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them...
R.M. ARCEJAEGER If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we ...
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I i...
ITALO SVEVO You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
ITALO SVEVO There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember
ITALO SVEVO We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.
JOSHILYN JACKSON God gave us life on this earth so that we would fulfill His commission to establish the kingdom of G...
SUNDAY ADELAJA God gave us time so that everything wouldn't happen all at once.
UNKNOWN We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have the ability to creat throw our imagination witch god gave to us in witch god himself created...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.
SOURCE UNKNOWN God gave us this technology, God gave us Adam and God gave Molly her second chance at life, and to u...
LISA NASH What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
THOMAS MORE God gave us two ears and one mouth, so we can hear twice as much as we say.
SOURCE UNKNOWN God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
ATHANASIUS We must let go of the life we have planned, And take the plan god gave us.
FLAMESTARTA I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves...
L.M. MONTGOMERY So walk in love as Christ loved us, and gave Himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to...
EPHESIANS 5 2 People have lost touch with the basic ingredient that God gave us which is love
STEVEN ESPINOSA That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the ...
JANET FITCH The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet n...
JOHN BERGER We are told that religion says: 'God gave us brains' - and then they also quickly add: '-but God doe...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb u...
PETER KREEFT Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all ...
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all ...
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumst...
JERRY BRIDGES The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the to...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Here at Bethel, we believe we're not blessed unless we bless others. The Bible states, 'For God so l...
DONALD BAILEY Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER) Dignity, strength, power and courage are all tools that God gave us to make us stronger in the futur...
JEFFREY LEONARD Don’t misconceive God; His purpose is for us to enjoy fruits, but He gave us seeds so that we can ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
GEORGE ELIOT I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
VERA FARMIGA People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with ...
MONICA JOHNSON Everything we know about the world is memory saved once by God who would have probably wanted to for...
SORIN CERIN We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fail...
NICK VUJICIC If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting.
SOLOMON SHORT We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish...
JESUS CHRIST God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and l...
GORDON B. HINCKLEY It was clear to me that reality was catching up with satire so fast that somebody might read this es...
JOSH FREED But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER God gave us the access, but we need to exercise courage to have it. No one lacks the access, but it�...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
MENCIUS We just wanted to use what abilities God gave us and give Him the glory.
DEBRA GUHL I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. LEWIS I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C.S. LEWIS For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should n...
SCOTT HAHN Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America wa...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capabili...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish G...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tri...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not...
ANONYMOUS God gave us the church to arm us with help and strength
SUNDAY ADELAJA God gave us free will over "ourselves," not others.
BJ MORIN That gave us momentum. If they make a run there we might hang our heads in the locker room, but we e...
DAVID MCCLURE I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth an...
BIBLE Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA The nature of God is in us, so we are co-creators with God
SUNDAY ADELAJA By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world t...
JOHN POWELL I thought it was like a gift from God. I hate that we had the disaster, but it gave us some joy.
HARRY BROWN Some people grumble because roses have thorns. Be thankful instead that thorns have roses.
UNKNOWN Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvati...
ANN VOSKAMP They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the char...
DAVID SUZUKI It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT I am not questioning God's power! It is God who gave us reason and circumspection! It is God we serv...
DAN BROWN Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When Jesus died on the cross the mercy of God did not become any greater. It could not become any gr...
A.W. TOZER Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR We had a warm January, just like we had a cold December. The first two weeks of December was the col...
ERIC HORST It brings hope and peace of mind knowing that God gave His only begotten Son for us. I'm able to...
ADRIAN PETERSON Weather in December has been roughly about 20percent colder than normal. So, our guess right now is ...
DAN CONSIDINE We came charging today. (U.S. captain) Nancy (Lopez) gave us inspiration. She gave us so much motiva...
CHRISTINA KIM Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Wal-Mart has had a much stronger gift-card season than last year, so that might explain why their (D...
BRITT BEEMER The poetry of love is the greatest gift God gave us.
SORIN CERIN Since December 2005, our customers have informed us of significant shifts in their budget and progra...
DEREK MCLUCKEY By afflictions, God is spoiling us [i.e., taking away from us] of what otherwise might have spoiled ...
JOHN POWELL He became what we are so that he might make us what he is.
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June, Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; ...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believ...
LORD BYRON We should have never gotten down that far in the first place. That just gave us more intensity to co...
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