We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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All perfect ... JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD It was a phony call. He said he was thinking about shooting himself after he told us he had shot his... MAJ. CARLOS RAINES If the hand of God had come down from heaven and smacked him dead, James could not have been more su... CATHY MAXWELL We kind of call Jarvis our miracle baby because in the spring we didn't have him. And then he came o... CHARLIE STRONG A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw... MEISTER ECKHART He was so comfortable. He finished out good, but the other horse drew away from us. Nobody else real... BRICE BLANC He was a really, really outstanding back. He came through my camp and showed people he had quickness... JOE BUTLER He strapped a video camera to the hood of his car and we drove around while he filmed us smashing th... JOHN WATERS They left him for dead and when we showed up he was laying in the street. ANNE E. 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JUNKO ABE He prays as he is offering protection money to God, so that he does not trouble him with his antics. DR HITESH C SHETH The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't re... FRANCIS CHAN I think Kelly has a little something about him, ... If I said to him, 'Go out and try a 55-yarder,' ... JOE PATERNO I think Kelly has a little something about him. If I said to him, 'Go out and try a 55-yarder,' he w... JOE PATERNO Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which ca... JOHN RALSTON SAUL He really had so much talent, and he was willing to accept any role we gave him. He worked extremely... EDWARD ROMERO I most definitely knows God is strong. If he were weak he would not have been able to hold me when I... ESTHER EARL It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. 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He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and l... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God... THOMAS MERTON Even when he could no longer call a show (giving cues and the like), he had so much to impart, so mu... ED STERN I'm so blessed. I was thankful to God that he delivered my prayers. DOUG YOUNG he’d spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn’t matter in the sligh... THOMAS MALLON I was so happy for him. He has worked so hard for four years and was very, very solid right when it ... ANDREW DORAIS CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come! To us a Child is born, To us a S... HORATIUS BONAR I believe our baby is a miracle. He was so long when he was born the medical staff didn't know where... ROY VASQUEZ Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e... 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He doesn't leave us, and He doesn... FRANK PERETTI Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times t... ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre... H. A. IRONSIDE What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa... GINA JONES Thank God, my family is safe. I was so afraid he was going to get out. MARGARET JOHNSON Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by G... MAX BARRY If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his... JOHN THE APOSTLE We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which H... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH God is not beholden to us at all. He doesn't owe us anything. JOHN PIPER
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BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ... BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi... BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages... BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what... BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere... BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons... BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different... BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ... BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur... BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins... BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic... BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a... BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome... BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new... BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated... BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ... BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta... BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking. BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin... BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w... BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise. BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be... BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o... BARBARA KINGSOLVER