Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dianne Nolan

We remember Alex and his family in our prayers. We have cards going out to the members of the pep band and our team wants to do something as a tribute to Alex in his remembrance.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Tenzin Dhonden

When we are turning the prayer wheel, we are requesting (Buddha) to send more healing light to change the energy on the planet.

Kyle Johnson

We found out at a team meeting in the morning. Our prayers are going out to him and his family. We just wish for everything to go smoothly, and that he'll be safe and be well.

John Powell

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?

William Shakespeare

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

William Shakespeare

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

Alan Bennett

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

John Powell

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

Alan Bennett

Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith, as Paul saw it, was a living, flaming thing leading to surrender and obedience to the commandments of Christ.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one

Chanakya

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Billy Sunday

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

Billy Sunday

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

Bruce Wilkinson

If people are not sharing their faith in your church, if they're not having a quiet time, if they're not living godly lives, then you need to change your style of preaching. You are obviously not seeing lives changed through the Word of God. So what is the problem? The problem isn't the Word. The problem is your preaching style.

Charles W. Chesnutt

Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.

Will Durant

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

William Shakespeare

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?

William Shakespeare

The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down.

Camille Paglia

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Camille Paglia

In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention, constraint, oppression. Dionysus is energy unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Apollo is law, history, tradition, the dignity and safety of custom and form. Dionysus is the new, exhilarating but rude, sweeping all away to begin again. Apollo is a tyrant, Dionysus is a vandal.

Bryan Procter

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Caryl Churchill

What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.

Bill Moyers

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.