Basilea Schlink Quotes
How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.
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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
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My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields.
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Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
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When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.
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My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
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I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
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I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first.
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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
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I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
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True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
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If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
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The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
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Usury once in control will wreck the nation.
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls who have the power to bless, for they intercede with sanctified hearts. They never begin their daily time of intercessory prayer without having first brought to the cross all that is unholy in their lives, so that their old self can be crucified there with Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb.
