Ole Hallesby Quotes

Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

Ole Hallesby

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• Heart
• Friend
• Prayer

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

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• What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

  

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• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

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• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

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• I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation.

  

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• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

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• You realize mortality is everywhere.

  

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  

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• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • Heart
  • Friend