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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely.
I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
People who own everything know how to relax a little and bend and exhale once in a while, but they're not going to let it get out of control.
I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.
Poetry and music I have banished,
But the stupidity
Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
Makes no demand.
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It's pronounced 'Stone 'em' because Massachusetts doesn't bend to the will of 'how letters are supposed to be said.'
My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and hijack democratic institutions - to their favour.
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.
I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most
(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?
In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!
Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little.
I'm more of somebody who'll bend over backwards for people and, you know, wait at the back of the line until everybody's taken care of. That's really my nature.
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.
Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.
In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.
Exene taught me how to bend my notes when I sing. That's her style. And I learned that from her.
She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.
I just want to bend fire. You know, it'd be cool to throw some fire to a couple of old agents, the ex wife.
I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'
Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
When Satan attacks you, command him in the Name of Jesus to bend his neck. On the back of it you'll find there's a nail scarred foot print!
I turn my feet in when I'm sitting down. I tend to put my arms across me when I'm sat thinking; I bend forwards. Loads of protective curves.
Being a president is an impossible job - it's naive to think someone can do the job and not bend the law here and there.
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.
Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their back, picking lettuce and fruit, can do it. We don't want those jobs. Let's be real about that.
'Runaways' was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I'm hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be.
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to fit the purpose at hand.
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
It's really tough when you have back injury because you cannot bend; you cannot react at the balls.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
I don't have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.
As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family, neighbors, friends, and residents.
Supernatural films allow you to bend the rules of time and space - that's really fun, especially for screenwriters who often get shot down for logic reasons.
As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.
While Daddy liked to stick to the rules, Mummy liked to bend them.
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
