Ole Hallesby Quotes

The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

Ole Hallesby

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

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• I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.

  

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• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
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• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

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• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
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• Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.

  

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• I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

  

  Anthony Burgess
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• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

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• The only thing I can say about W. C. Fields … is this: Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

  

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• Everyday rape incidents are being highlighted as if the entire state has become the land of rapists. Rape is sought to be glorified by these people. This will not be tolerated by people. I would like to say that negative journalism only destroys and it is time to champion positive journalism.

  

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• No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.

  

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• I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

  

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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  

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• I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.

  

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• I was a sad kid.

  

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• My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.

  

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• Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
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• Why should the sons and daughters of God be reluctant to pray, when prayer is the key in the hand of faith to unlock heaven's storehouse, where are treasured the boundless resources of Omnipotence.

  

  Ellen G. White
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• Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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• The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Prayer