Isaac Watts Quotes
Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
Quotes to Explore
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.
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I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.
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I was a sad kid.
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We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life’s very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.
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We wondered why we ever thought there was, during the Cold War, any serious danger of Russia conquering the world when they couldn't even deliver the scenery for The Tempest.
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The world is filled with God's glory. You can't turn without bumping into it.
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You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.
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'Harry!' Boutin said. 'Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.'
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.
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We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
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I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.
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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
