Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• I'm a Cubs fan. As a kid, the Cubs were my team.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Team
  • Kid
  • Fan

• There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • Fight
  • Terrorism

• One should never be so formal that one loses life, but one should never be so informal that one becomes without form of any kind.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life

• I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Why

• All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

  

  Shakira
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Hair

• I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

  

  Enoch Powell

• Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

  

  Lilla Crawford
  • Up
  • Time

• Blood: A red substance believed to be capable of supporting life but which in a theatrical drama invariably indicates death.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Life
  • Death
  • Drama

• If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

  

  Les Brown
  • Responsibility

• As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer

• People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse.

  

  Ben Harper
  • See
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • World
  • Soul
  • Risk

• I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Reading

• who should give a clear answer to the question of whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction or not.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Iraq

• Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Giving

• Fue adondo a mi me perdieron quw logre por fin encontrarme? Was it where they lost me that I finally found myself?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Lost

• The happiest moments in any affair take place after the loved one has learned to accommodate the lover and before the maddening personality of either party has emerged like a jagged rock from the receding tides of lust and curiosity.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Party
  • Moments
  • Rock

• In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Support

• The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Reading
  • Simple

• Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Work
  • Book
  • History

• The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Prayer
  • Accepted
  • Sinner