Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

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• I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Good Will

• In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Works

• This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.

  

  Rachel

• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • World
  • Girl
  • Boy

• Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Character
  • Age
  • Perfection

• In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Generation
  • Philosophical
  • Promised Land

• A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Control
  • Rely
  • Ruler

• It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Funny
  • Learned
  • Perfectionist

• I sort of feel I'm only as good as the last record I made. I was on as soon as I finish it I immediately put it aside and move on to the next project.

  

  Butch Vig Garbage
  • Feel
  • Record
  • Project

• Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Pockets
  • Buttons
  • Calculators

• The reason why people wear pajamas to the airport in the first place is so that they’ll be comfortable during their flight. But you know, typically, air travel is 50 to 75 percent of the time you spend traveling. The rest of the time you spend in public places like airports and around other people. That’s when looking good trumps comfort.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Comfortable
  • Airport
  • Pajamas

• They take inadequate views of Christ's prophetic character, who think Jesus came only to utter discourses, parables, and prayers. Suppose all He ever said to be found in the writings of Jewish rabbis and heathen philosophers, His great function would still be an orginal one, to show us the Father.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Character
  • Father
  • Christ

• I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

  

  William Gurstelle
  • Ideas
  • Overcoming

• Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy you'll have. I certainly believed that. Conventional sports nutrition books had me convinced of it. Yet, in practice, we see that clearly isn't the case.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Energy
  • Practice
  • Measure

• Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Prayers
  • Afflictions
  • Dearer