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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• 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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• 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
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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
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• Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic 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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• 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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• All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

  

  Betty Wright
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• I think faith is the small mustard seed of opportunities every day. For example, 'Am I going to love this person? Am I going to share my faith with this person? Am I going to pray that little prayer?' It really is a daily thing where you seize those little mustard seed opportunities and then see what God does.

  

  Mark Batterson
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• I am constantly thankful. The world is so beautiful, I am thankful. I have endless energy, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Supply, I am thankful. I am plugged into the source of Universal Truth, I am thankful. I have this constant feeling of thankfulness, which is a prayer.

  

  Peace Pilgrim
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• Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

  

  Frederick Douglass
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• Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

  

  F. B. Meyer
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• What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

  

  Antonio Machado
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• We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.

  

  Faith Baldwin
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• In reading our newspapers today, we can see how God is setting the table, getting everything in order, preparing the way for Christ to return.

  

  David Jeremiah
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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
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