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

• It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Men
  • Long

• I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Husband
  • Labor
  • Outsiders

• Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Savior.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • God
  • Trust
  • Confidence

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

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Prayers
  • Afflictions
  • Dearer