Adolph Saphir Quotes

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

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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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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
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• The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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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
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• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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• Our duty is to be patient.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  

  Harold MacMillan
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• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
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• Are you there? Say a prayer for the pretender who started out so young and strong only to surrender

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Strong
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• Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

  

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

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• God shapes the world by prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
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• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
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• I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

  

  Roy Orbison
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• It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.

  

  James Lankford
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• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

  

  Philip James Bailey
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• The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
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• Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

  

  John Ruskin
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• Arm strength, I think, is a thing that's, like, incredibly overrated in the NFL.

  

  Matt Hasselbeck

• Sometimes I'll watch an old movie on television and, once in a while, one of mine, such as April Showers, will come on and I'll watch it. And you know something? I'm always amazed at what a lousy actress I was. I guess in the old days we just got by on glamour.

  

  Ann Sothern
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  • April

• Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
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• It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Prayer
  • Duty
  • Privilege