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
  • Good
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  • Him

• 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
  • Duty
  • Patient
  • Be Patient

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

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Government
  • Duty
  • Her

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

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

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

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Strong
  • Prayer

• 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
  • Faith
  • Progress

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

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Prayer

• God shapes the world by prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
  • God
  • Prayer

• 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
  • Life
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  • Worry

• 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
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• 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
  • Dream
  • Night
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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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• Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

  

  Etty Hillesum
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• There is nothing like the buzz of singing one of your songs during a show and hearing your fans singing with you.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Singing

• If you cannot imagine with the mind's eye much more than you can see with the mortal eye, you have a very poor imagination indeed.

  

  William Blake
  • Imagination
  • Imagine
  • Mortal Eye

• Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

  

  George Trumbull Ladd
  • Things
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• Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Book
  • Success
  • Written

• 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