Francis Collins Quotes

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

Francis Collins

• Sometimes
• Prayer
• Worship
• Supplication

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• I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Joke

• Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Sometimes
  • Down
  • Walk

• I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Game
  • Lost

• I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that we have.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Lost
  • Sometimes
  • Media

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Sometimes
  • Woman
  • White

• Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Star
  • Sometimes
  • Impossible

• One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Bored

• I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Responsibility
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • See

• The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Sometimes
  • Dance
  • Said

• Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Up
  • Song
  • You

• Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Often

• Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Friend
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• There's only one proper way a song should go, but you've got to be patient enough to let them come together time wise. Sometimes it's lightning in a bottle and you got the song. But oftentimes it shows up.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

  

  David Deida
  • Consciousness
  • Worship
  • Tolerate

• Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to read and appreciate! All the arts! All the things of the spirit!

  

  Carol Emshwiller
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Real

• Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

  

  Francis Collins
  • Sometimes
  • Prayer
  • Worship