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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Praying that does not result in right thinking and right living is a farce. We have missed the whole office of prayer if it fails to purge our character and correct conduct. We have failed entirely to understand the virtue of prayer, if it does not bring about the revolutionizing of life. In the very nature of tings, we must either quit praying or quit our bad conduct.
Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them. — © Anton Chekhov
People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.
Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.
Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.
When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair.
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
When we speak our words to God with thanksgiving and release them with the faith that our requests will be granted, we put ourselves in a position to receive. God does not change and nature's laws are absolute and impartial. Thus, prayer has the potential for changing us. It connects us with God's spirit, and it is the key to His kingdom. Whatever your religious persuasion, it's a good thing to start every day with prayer.
That's what I like about Frank Ocean or Bon Iver - they try to capture a feeling in the most sincere way.
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. — © Susan Polis Schutz
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs.
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
It is my sincere hope that every person in India will experience true freedom of faith, regardless of religion.
Rahul Gandhi himself doesn't have any vision or the political acumen to be able to differentiate between sycophancy and sincere advice.
Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.
Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.
It is?classic Bill Clinton, sincere and deceptive at the same time, requiring a careful reading between the lines.
Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?
Love means never having to say you're sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you.
I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.
Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because the fun and the wildness in it is sincere.
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.
The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.
What we now consider to be radical behavior was to early believers nothing more than a sincere attempt to live obediently.
The Christian, the Mohammedan, the Jew - their emphasis is on the second: to die as soon as possible, to surrender to God. Prayer is their way. Prayer means dying, dying and disappearing as a person, becoming part of the universal, a surrender, a trust in God. The whole emphasis is on how to surrender your ego, sacrifice your ego, at the altar of the divine.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.
Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy.
Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt. — © Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.
Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the Master will elevate your thinking. The more you pray, the more will be revealed. You will appreciate not only the greatness of prayer, but the greatness of God.
I'd like to put on record my sincere thanks to everyone at Wigan Athletic for the tremendous support they showed me during my time there.
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world; she takes possession of it; like the sun, she clasps it in a circle of light.
We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
When you embrace the mystery and open yourself to it, a new life is created, resistant to the old problems. You will notice at times that the new life isn't what you asked for. But asking for specific items or for particular events to occur isn't how I define prayer. I cannot guarantee that the orders you place with God will always be filled. Prayer is not a test of God, but a call for help to find your inner strength and talent.
I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. — © Tony Robbins
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
You only get honest expression when I spit in your ear; That means even when I'm dissing you I'm being sincere.
You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.
Prayer adds an element of surprise to your life that is more fun than a surprise party or surprise gift or surprise romance. In fact, prayer turns life into a party, into a gift, into a romance.
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere, yet not indifferent to one's fate.
My sincere effort always will be to lift the reputation of the Indian team and my country whenever I play for India.
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
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