We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.
Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.
My chosen drink would be a Southern Comfort, lime and lemonade, a dry martini or a good red wine.
I always use dry shampoo, even if my hair isn't oily. It gives me so much texture and that bedhead vibe.
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.
Human hair takes much more attention, as far as holding the style. You have to comb it, straighten it out, and wash and dry it.
He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.
The people now trapped in Obamacare did what the government mandated them to do - they complied with the law. They should not be left out to dry.
What I find really works for me is dry body brushing; it helps improve the circulation and exfoliates your skin.
Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!
I'm getting to enjoy the mentality of the British, the sarcasm, the dry humour. There are so many more ways of articulating yourself than in German.
I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now.
What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.
It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.
I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.
Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.
Sometimes in news photography and so on, the pictures are a little bit dry, and put on the page and just set in a journalistic way in front of you.
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
My hair is extremely dry and fragile, so moisture is key. I love black castor oil, shea butter, and lots of water.
As a man of faith, God doesn't bring you to things that you can't get through. He doesn't put you in a spot and then leave you out to dry.
I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.
I log 250 days a year on the road. I need pants that are versatile, easy to clean, and dry in my hotel room if necessary.
Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.
Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
When you go to the jungle in South Africa, it's tropical versus the dry heat of Cape Town - it's hard to believe it's the same country.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
I could tell you what my good qualities are. There's my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don't get to see.
My blood G cold, never seen my dad cry. And I'm a bleed your block til the cash dry!
I love having my hair blown dry by a stylist and I also truly enjoy being with my friends and family.
I use the petroleum jelly on my lips because they get very dry and it's truly the only thing that works.
The star family status can easily get you opportunities, but the offers dry up after a point when you don't prove yourself.
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
Let the dry eyes perceive
Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.
Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping.
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish them dry.
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.
It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.
In terms of what influenced me, I grew up on The Beatles, and I always was struck by their dry British sense of humor.
I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.
You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.
The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.
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