Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isiah Thomas

Our prayers and thoughts are with him. We will do everything that we're supposed to do and beyond.

J. J. Johnson

Our prayer has been from day one that other towns can see that we can do this.

C. S. Lewis

When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

C. S. Lewis

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

C. S. Lewis

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

C. S. Lewis

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

Sharon Cannon

Part of it is a desire for lifelong learning. Part of it is for a job requirement. Part of it is for educational goals. Some of it is to earn more money.

Bill Watterson

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

Christine McVie

Suddenly the desire to write tricked back into my life again, not that I would want to tour or go on the road. Once you have been writing all of your life, it is part of what you do. What else do you do?

Paul Jewell

Overall, I thought we were more than worth a point, we showed great determination and desire not to lose the game.

Ken Williams

Our ultimate desire ... was to keep this team intact. It may turn out that someone overwhelms us with an offer for Jose.

Dennis Hastert

out of respect for the office of the presidency and for a desire to hear about the state of our nation.

Debra Roberts

Remove the shackles from me and set me free, free to be the woman you desire me to be.

Thomas Bauer

Reserves can't have any role in earnings targets or the desire to meet an earnings target.

C. S. Lewis

We come to Scripture not to learn a subject but to steep ourselves in a person.

C. S. Lewis

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

Benjamin Rush

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them...

Bible Bible

For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Blaise Pascal

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Charles Spurgeon

Within the Scripture there is a balm for every wound, a salve for every sore.

Athanasius

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

English Proverbs

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

Albert Einstein

The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions.