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According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not, one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe there's no way of getting to your door.


Frederick Buechner

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Dare to follow your own paths.
Dare to be yourself.
Dare to be different.
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
JOHN P. MASCOTTE Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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 Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it
SARA SHEPARD To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD By establishing a strategic online presence through your website, social media, keywords, meta tags,...
SUSAN C. YOUNG O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path...
OSHO That’s not fair!

Words we often speak when God's word becomes flesh in our lives 2 Timo...
JOHN M SHEEHAN The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Like the vital rudder of a ship, we have been provided a way to determine the direction we travel. T...
THOMAS S. MONSON There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
EPICTETUS We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had ...
JOEL OSTEEN When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Shelley, you’re just like that oyster.” God confronted me on the deeper areas of my life that I ...
SHELLEY LUBBEN We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time...
MARGARET MCMULLAN People gave us a purpose. Something to do all day, every day. At the end, I suppose, you spend a lot...
C. ROBERT CARGILL The last key in a whole bunch of keys opens the door
SUNDAY ADELAJA Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF When someone is holding a door shut that you're meant to enter, just keep pushing until you get it o...
BREE HAYES Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Realize yourself. Realize your abilities. Be sincere to nobody else, but yourself. Keep walking on t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themsel...
JOSH HARTNETT PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA There is no way to your personal joy if you hand over the keys to someone who is not ready to open t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Sacrifice is a terribly difficult thing to do, of which you will be asked to do many times along you...
FORREST CURRAN If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haun...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...
ARTHUR PINE Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, ...
PAULINE KAEL To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) How in the hell could you have given me your heart?" I wondered aloud.

"Because you're th...
CAMBRIA HEBERT In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I don’t know,’ said Frodo. ‘It came to me then, as if I was making it up; but I may have heard...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.

Where there ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door,...
MICHAEL ENDE Until you take your first step, you will not be able to open the door to begin the journey toward yo...
DEBASISH MRIDHA To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive o...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...
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FREDERICK SANGER Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE