In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.
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SáNDOR MáRAI Strife -- in philosophy, religion, and politics -- has certainly gained so much ground that it is im... JAN AMOS COMENIUS If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we bec... BARACK OBAMA Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch... JULIA CAMERON It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In ... THOMAS MERTON If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him SUNDAY ADELAJA This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there wi... JOHN CONNOLLY Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all i... THOMAS MERTON We know that we determine our own destiny. We just have to take care of our own business, and we can... BRIAN SHAW I think the reason our mission work has grown is because of the 'prayer principle.' If we think we s... BILL CAMP If you stop to think about it, I feel good about where we are at. We still have a lot of work to do ... CHARLES CASEY Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... MARISSA MEYER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have wo... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ... JULIANA OF NORWICH If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflec... GRAY SCOTT We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We ... ELLEN G. WHITE We never with our eyes saw our own soul; yet we have a soul. We see many rivers, but we know not the... SAMUEL RUTHERFORD We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... We are fortunate: we are alive; we are powerful; the welfare of our civilization and our species is ... CARL SAGAN In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individu... ADAM JOHNSON We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives w... LAURA KNIGHT JADCZYK We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do no... DOROTHY HEIGHT Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musi... STEVE VAI A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space. ALBERT EINSTEIN Such, then, is our God: unknowable in his essence, yet known in his energies; beyond and above all t... KALLISTOS WARE We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become ... C.S. LEWIS Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us liv... DAN PEARCE This is the fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our eff... C.S. LEWIS I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade... 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MADELEINE PEYROUX I'm very conscious of developing my singing, technically and stylistically. I want it to become ... MADELEINE PEYROUX Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their ar... MADELEINE PEYROUX I love playing to people and seeing them react. MADELEINE PEYROUX I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But i... MADELEINE PEYROUX My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. MADELEINE PEYROUX My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. MADELEINE PEYROUX Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful th... MADELEINE PEYROUX I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating. MADELEINE PEYROUX I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary j... MADELEINE PEYROUX I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk ... MADELEINE PEYROUX You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of ... MADELEINE PEYROUX No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a... MADELEINE PEYROUX It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status. MADELEINE PEYROUX A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, w... MADELEINE L'ENGLE With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, qu... MADELEINE L'ENGLE That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've ... MADELEINE L'ENGLE Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance... MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE It is the ability to choose which makes us human. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. MADELEINE L'ENGLE In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well,... MADELEINE L'ENGLE