William Carey Quotes

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

William Carey

• Prayer
• Missionary
• Devotion
• Wander
• Tire

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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• Not all those who wander are lost.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
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• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
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• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
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• Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Friends
  • Desire

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
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• I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Like
  • Prayer
  • Top

• Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Important
  • Prayer
  • Most

• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Mind
  • Prayer
  • Thank You

• I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Direction

• Through devotion, your family cares become more peaceful, mutual love between husband and wife becomes more sincere, the service we owe to the prince more faithful, and our work, no matter what it is, becomes more pleasant and agreeable.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• True prayer requires no word, no chant no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly Ground

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • True
  • Prayer
  • Calm

• Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer

• Grant us the single heart once more That mocks no sacred thing, The Sword of Truth our fathers wore When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell Our deep unspoken prayer; For, while our souls in darkness dwell, We know that Thou art there.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Truth

• Maybe baby I'll have you,Maybe baby you'll be true.Maybe baby I'll have you for me. (All for me)It's funny honey you don't care-a-are,You never listen to my prayer-a-yer,Maybe baby you will love me someday (someday).

  

  Buddy Holly
  • True
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  • Prayer

• Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Time
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• We often say, and you have heard the expression as it has already been referred to in this conference, that "as man now is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become." The only way man may become as God now is, is through fulfilling the laws of celestial marriage and the laws of the gospel, as I have just read to you the word of the Lord from the D&C. Can we afford to overlook such opportunities for exaltation? Temple marriage is not just another form of church wedding; it is a divine covenant with the Lord that if we are faithful to the end, we may become as God now is.

  

  Eldred G. Smith
  • God
  • Marriage
  • Expression

• It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Children
  • Father

• When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' - it's about sex.

  

  Dale Bumpers
  • Sex

• The large majority of people are asleep and do not wish to wake up.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Wish

• I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

  

  William Carey
  • Prayer
  • Missionary
  • Devotion