It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
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Related Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it. DEYTH BANGER Do the thing and you will have the power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Do. Then talk. In that order. SOTERO M LOPEZ II People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an... CAMILLE SWEENEY If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it SOTONYE ANGA Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the prin... WILLIAM FEATHER Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the princi... 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MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list... THOMAS HARRIS Don't think it. Do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you can do it, why you won't do it??? If you have chance why you won't use it? DEYTH BANGER If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i... ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything... JOHN LENNON God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o... JOEY TALLADINO Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at i... EMILY DICKINSON YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. STEPHEN KING To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as l... LAURE96 If you can dream it, you can do it. ENZO FERRARI The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY It's pretty neat, especially with our team doing as well as we are in this tournament. It means a lo... 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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, an... JOHN PIPER God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to... JOHN RUSKIN I would say for the most part we haven't had anything like that in almost two years. That's as effec... DANNY MACIOCIA I felt we could do it. I didn't know if we would. This was one of our better-played games. GREGG HOSTETLER Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ... BRENT M. JONES What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mou... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes th... MOTHER TERESA There's doubt in trying. Just do it or stop thinking. TOBA BETA Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... I'd be heartened if I saw a bunch of people doing it and thought I could do it better. Seeing no one... MIKE SCHULTZ I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will... NEHA KOTHARI I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wond... M. J. ROSE Bound by custom or unique by choice. MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won. In the west, deeds are done. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation. ROGER SCRUTON The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times... ELIZABETH EDWARDS More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. CRAIG GROESCHEL It costs ten times more to govern that it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good. WILL ROGERS You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you a... PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't. That’s what you say. That’s how you get through it. The tu... CAITLYN SIEHL Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA I thought we had very good intensity in the first half, but I don't think our intensity was nearly a... RANDY MOSS Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 We, and all things, exis... LILY DOUGALL Answer, yeah I know it... We were for little period of time texting nothing else... no friendship is... DEYTH BANGER Why do we, as women, accept the crumbs thrown our way when we know in our hearts that we deserve the... STACEY CHARTER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I have said with as much sincerity as I can muster that if I were thrown into a dungeon with a sente... EDWARD P. JONES ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had... MEISTER ECKHART If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL Isn't it amazing that we’ll cause ourselves more pain by thinking about, and avoiding something we... JAMES A. MURPHY I just don't see why having these powers makes it necessary for all of us to become politicians, war... SAMIT BASU As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, ... LAURA MARANO Let me tell you, if I could write one-tenth as fast as some of my friends, I'd be made. I'd ... JUNOT DIAZ Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa... PHILIP T. M. The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I love my destruction.
Cause I still love the cause of my destruction
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value,
Only when someone else crumbles it...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN To be street smart it takes respect of a persons ability to control their emotional state and to kno... GARY F EVANS... His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart..
- Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept... ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love...
-Anshika. ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself ....
... ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces....
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him...
-Anshika ANSHIKA JAIN You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it. DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels. KYLIE SCOTT
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ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh... ELLIOT WASHINGTON This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are... JANE ELLIOT Age is how we determine how valuable you are. JANE ELLIOT I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Au... JANE ELLIOT I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vici... JANE ELLIOT We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put i... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode. JANE ELLIOT "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ... ELLIOT RODGER Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age ELLIOT PAUL It's not just one crop in one region. It's multiple crops in most of the state that have been affect... DAVE ELLIOT It was like hitting a brick wall. We're still unsure of what to do. ELLIOT SECRIST We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of whit... JANE ELLIOT The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation WALTER ELLIOT