Gerald Vann quote: "Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud."

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GERALD VANN

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that...
GERALD VANN

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
GERALD VANN

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the trut...
GERALD VANN

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity
GERALD VANN

Are there moments when our brains are not exercising?” I questioned. “That would be almost like ...
VANN CHOW

Mike the trial attorney is exceptionally prepared, talented, and in regard how he runs a case in cou...
WOODY VANN

Understand that I am even ignored by the opposite sex on the internet.
VANN CHOW

I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.
VANN CHOW

Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity a...
VANN CHOW

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.
DAVID VANN

The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American m...
VANN CHOW

Conventional wisdom nor scientific, mathematical prove of randomness in life could do nothing to det...
VANN CHOW

Sleep, she said. Sleep while you can. Forget where you are and forget the mountain of days. Each one...
DAVID VANN

You just cannot have the same thing twice without being disappointed.
VANN CHOW

Having a date with someone other than your ex-wife after being a married man for more than twenty fi...
VANN CHOW

There was nothing so special about First Class, apart from the amount of uncalled for, almost distur...
VANN CHOW

Understandably she had a lot of suitors, just like any other girls in China with two arms and legs.
VANN CHOW

I love America for its bourgeois comfort. If I was as heavily in debt as they are, I wouldn't be dri...
VANN CHOW

The face of self-pity was universally understood.
VANN CHOW

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.
VANN CHOW

I guess even smart students gossips just like regular people.
VANN CHOW

They haven't figured out yet that they're doing a lot of extra work they're having fun. You could...
JEFF VANN

I'm doing the Region 18 teacher-certification program. They always talk about peer learning, peer le...
JEFF VANN

We think that birth parents should always have the option to choose whether their information should...
ROGER VANN

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work inc...
LUTHER E. VANN

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of I...
LUTHER E. VANN

Obelisks don't grow from the soil, and stone men and iron horses are never built without purpose.
VANN R. NEWKIRK II

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for f...
GERALD MASSEY

And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand wha...
GERALD SCARFE

Nothing fails like success. •Gerald Nachman We must believe in luck. For how else can we expl...
GERALD NACHMAN

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some cor...
GERALD MASSEY

This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of ...
GERALD MASSEY

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thor...
GERALD MASSEY

And then came the war. That certainly raised the pressure from the personal front. It also brought r...
GERALD HEARD

Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lam...
GERALD KERSH

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets...
GERALD PRIESTLAND

I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will...
GERALD KERSH

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study t...
GERALD EARLY

Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity, and then there was none.
GERALD BARZAN

You can't make wrong work.
GERALD WATERHOUSE

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us...
GERALD EARLY

Success is the ability to rise above principle.
GERALD BARZAN

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
GERALD BRENAN

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
GERALD BARZAN

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
GERALD BARZAN

The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly ...
GERALD EARLY

I wasn't affected by inflation, I had nothing to inflate.
GERALD BARZAN

I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything.
GERALD BARZAN

When man to man shall be friend and brother.
GERALD MASSEY

Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow...
GERALD BARZAN

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be
GERALD BARZAN

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
GERALD BRENAN

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
GERALD HOLTON

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being awa...
GERALD BRENAN

For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure...
GERALD GOULD

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
GERALD BRENAN

What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adver...
GERALD MCKNIGHT

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know ...
GERALD BRENAN

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
GERALD BRENAN

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major resp...
GERALD WALPIN

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
GERALD BRENAN

You can be right or you can be happy.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and...
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past,...
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

The best thing we can do is prepare people to lead in a much more diverse environment and see that a...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic ju...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a s...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial ...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and liv...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the re...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother ...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're no...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the probl...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; ...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

It's not always the case that doing what's right is also doing what's smart, but when it...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Many of our students say, 'We wish we had a mentor in high school. We wish we had someone we cou...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Our young immigrants have a lot to offer. They are motivated and hard-working, and in many cases hav...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in t...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

You can learn what you want to learn through hard work. And a good employer will teach you what you ...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paychec...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

The ABC's are attitude, behavior and communication skills.
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, gener...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
GERALD DURRELL

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being awa...
GERALD BRENAN

Why, he was so handsome and brave that no one would ever have suspected that he was bookish!
GERALD MORRIS

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
GERALD CLARKE

The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do a...
GERALD MCRANEY

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, becau...
GERALD CLARKE

The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one wou...
GERALD CHERTAVIAN

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.
GERALD SCARFE

I'm really open-minded, musically. The credo I ascribe to is, 'Take care of the music, and l...
GERALD CLAYTON

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of...
GERALD MASSEY

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction.
GERALD CLARKE

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
GERALD BRENAN

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we h...
GERALD GRIFFIN

Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier...
GERALD GRIFFIN

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be.
GERALD BARZAN

Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.
GERALD BARZAN

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
GERALD BARZAN

It was me being selfish and just going around thinking everything should go my way. I was thinking a...
GERALD ANDERSON

I was thinking about leaving here, but not because of Fred,
GERALD ANDERSON

He came here and he emerged and I didn't and that's all I heard, Fred this and Fred that, ... I was ...
GERALD ANDERSON

That's what I'm shooting for,
GERALD ANDERSON

We don't mind being a little bit lower and a little underestimated. It presents a different challeng...
GERALD ANDERSON

Finding parts for these old tractors is a challenge. Many steam engines were scrapped during World W...
GERALD ANDERSON

It is good for younger people to see how things were done before modern conveniences when you sat in...
GERALD ANDERSON

Anywhere I go, no matter where he's at, I never had a chance to beat him before. This is my first ti...
GERALD ANDERSON

I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game, ... Everyone is looking at th...
GERALD ANDERSON

I'm pretty sure a lot of people look at Boise State winning this game. Everyone is looking at the ty...
GERALD ANDERSON

Just about anyone can put a solid color tie with a patterned shirt, or vice-versa, but the ability t...
GERALD ANDERSEN

When your dad is running around in jeans and a T-shirt, you want to look different.
GERALD ANDERSEN

The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend a...
GERALD ANDERSEN

He's been a real shot in the arm for the tie business.
GERALD ANDERSEN

I think this is the biggest disservice to middle-aged men. A lot of them used to look dignified, and...
GERALD ANDERSEN

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups...
GERALD DURRELL

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
GERALD BRENAN

I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.
GERALD BARZAN

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, ...
GERALD BRENAN

Nothing fails like success.
GERALD NACHMAN

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
GERALD BARZAN

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness i...
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

Teach only love, for that is what you are.
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
GERALD BRENAN

If small things amuse small minds, then nothing amuses the Mindless.
GECOGEE GERALD

Sharon has reshaped himself as the ultimate centrist Israeli prime minister.
GERALD STEINBERG

He did tell me that 'In Cold Blood' scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. That's how he phras...
GERALD CLARKE

It is really enraging,
GERALD LEFCOURT

When you're in the service - you're alone. A lot of times soldiers will find out about their wives l...
GERALD SADLER

We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the...
GERALD MCRANEY

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that...
GERALD FORD

[That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure - to enable them to rule...
GERALD FORD

I'll know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.
GERALD FORD

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973)
GERALD FORD

All the children had to wear a gas mask in case of a gas attack by the Germans. They tried to make t...
GERALD SCARFE

It all came together all at once. It's the same idea as calling Domino's and ordering a pizza. You c...
GERALD RILEY

It's not the situation that's causing your stress, it's your thoughts, and you can change that right...
GERALD JAMPOLSKY

A house is not a home until it has a dog.
GERALD DURRELL

In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and...
GERALD FORD

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on thi...
GERALD MCRANEY

He has expressed his disrespect for the court,
GERALD HARRIS

He has come back approximately an hour late, even more, ... He has expressed his disrespect for the ...
GERALD HARRIS

It's not just a recovery. It's an aggressive accumulation that to me is indicative of an underlying ...
GERALD VINCENT

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general sho...
GERALD WALPIN

We urge state officials to independently monitor to protect the public and firefighters from the haz...
GERALD POLLET

I don't think it was too pretentious.
GERALD ROPER

We are very confident that, based on the evidence, we should clearly prevail.
GERALD RICHMAN

We are encouraged by September's revenue strength and, unless the recent stock market volatility and...
GERALD GREENWALD

Our view is that, yes, the humanitarian situation in the North has improved, but not to the extent t...
GERALD BOURKE

I'll probably head to the Canberra Cup with him [Reclaim].
GERALD RYAN

So much of the negotiations over Hong Kong has been more or less a question of Britain rolling over ...
GERALD SEGAL

If there is no question as to the legitimacy and legality of their operation, then everything ought ...
GERALD SHUSTER

His confession was no confession at all. He confessed to something he really didn't do.
GERALD WORD

The non-Cameron camp did command 106 votes against David Cameron's 90. It's not a shoo-in and I thin...
GERALD HOWARTH

The organic story is larger than just the healthy benefits of clean, nutritious foods. Organic farmi...
GERALD PROLMAN

Because this again shows that reproductive cloning is unsafe and inefficient, we call for a worldwid...
GERALD SCHATTEN

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to no...
GERALD CLARKE

I think the main focus as a musician should be to play the music you love to play, and the rest is g...
GERALD CLAYTON

We don't have professional burglars here. We have opportunists.
GERALD CVETKO

Yet knowing the physics steals none of the wonder as the sky turns from blue to crimson, then deep p...
GERALD SCHROEDER

The mystery that remains in the sunset is the riddle of why and how a mixture of seemingly inert, un...
GERALD SCHROEDER

From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is...
GERALD SCHROEDER

The real question is why is there “being”? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.
GERALD SCHROEDER

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.....
GERALD NICOSIA

We don't need to make any transactions. The necessity to buy something is not readily apparent to me...
GERALD LEVIN

Mixed-bloods loosen the seams in the shrouds of identities.
GERALD VIZENOR

I mean when I was working shall we say with Disney, you know they sent me the script for the film He...
GERALD SCARFE

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ...
GERALD DURRELL

Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go ...
GERALD NICOSIA

I said I _liked_ being half-educated; you were so much more _surprised_at everything when you were i...
GERALD DURRELL

Nothing except possibly love and death are of importance, & even the importance of death is somewhat...
GERALD DURRELL

If not, it's going to be quite a nut.
GERALD SMITH

Its hard because you went through camp with these guys and you cant be with them when you win, you c...
GERALD HAYES

there is no compulsion to doing that.
GERALD LEVIN

If it needed emphasis, underline and exclamation point, Katrina did that,
GERALD GRINSTEIN

I am (jealous). Because I know he's somewhere about to watch the game tonight, probably got a couple...
GERALD WALLACE

I'm a survivor, ... I'm going to find a home and job here and make it. I may go back and visit New O...
GERALD WALLACE

This feels great, ... But we'd love to be to be 3-0 right now. We let one slip away.
GERALD WALLACE

We know guys are banged up and hurt, and then Brevin goes down. When that happens, other guys have t...
GERALD WALLACE

I couldn't straighten or bend my leg when I went down. It felt more like when players bump knees at ...
GERALD WALLACE

We are doing all the things you need to do to be successful, causing turnovers, taking care of the b...
GERALD WALLACE

one of the smartest coaches I've been around.
GERALD GRIFFIN

We want to be platform-agnostic.
GERALD BRUEN

He has no agenda, he just has slogans. The pressure to come up with a program of reforms is huge.
GERALD CURTIS

Part of the program may include relief for states ... so the drag may not be as large from the state...
GERALD COHEN

The fact (that) those hard-liners were able to roll out those missiles in public in Iran sends a sig...
GERALD STEINBERG

I found out that colonels can stay until they drop dead or get a walker and being a critical medical...
GERALD GRIFFIN

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

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