Isaac of Nineveh Quotes

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

Isaac of Nineveh

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

  

  Qiu Xiaolong
  • Work
  • Real
  • Enough

• For me, doing a show, the excitement of singing live, and the possibility that you're not gonna be perfect - that's the thrill of it.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Live
  • Perfect
  • Singing

• When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Words
  • Moments

• By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

  

  John Pearson
  • God
  • Help
  • Father

• With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.

  

  Gabriel Cousens

• Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready to accuse thyself and admire him, as if the gilding of the key made it open the door the better.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Art
  • Sometimes
  • Prayer

• When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Heart
  • Evil
  • Sinner

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

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Prayer
  • Accepted
  • Sinner