Andrew Murray Quotes

Prayer is the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Andrew Murray

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• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • America
  • Free

• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• 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
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Prayer

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Good
  • Know
  • Quiet

• My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Responsibility

• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • You
  • Quiet

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

  

  Anna Katharine Green
  • World
  • Work
  • Desire

• So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

  

  Delloreese Patricia Early
  • Time
  • Desire

• America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • America
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

  

  Marsha Sinetar
  • Up
  • Power
  • Desire

• What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Desire
  • Mirror
  • Glitter

• I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Reading
  • Prayer
  • Bible

• We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Music
  • Desire
  • Appreciation

• Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

  

  Hernan Cortes
  • War
  • Success
  • Desire

• If they take the time to do that, what they will see are officers who are human, who are overwhelmingly doing the right thing for the right reasons, and who are too often operating in communities-and facing challenges-most of us choose to drive around.

  

  James Comey
  • Time

• I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Way
  • Find

• Prayer is the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

  

  Andrew Murray
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Quiet