Catherine Marshall (Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd) Quotes

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Catherine Marshall

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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
  • Desire
  • Prayer
  • Without

• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Powerful
  • Prayer

• Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Effort

• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Time
  • Death
  • Effort

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Community
  • Health
  • Effort

• 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

• That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Up
  • Effort

• Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Time
  • Why
  • Business

• I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer, and if you're willing to put in the effort and time and passion, you can really understand them.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Reading

• Writing, for me at least, takes a lot of concentrated work and effort. It takes dedication and the willingness to do the work even when that feeling of inspiration isn't there at all.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• 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
  • Country
  • Religious
  • Prayer

• A winning effort begins with preparation.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Effort
  • Winning
  • Preparation

• I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

  

  Ken Buck
  • Church
  • Prayer

• Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

  

  Gelsey Kirkland
  • Remember
  • High
  • Effort

• Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

  

  Nigella Lawson
  • Effort
  • Cake
  • Scams

• I think if we don't fix the economy and if we don't fix foreign policy, we won't have the luxury of dealing with domestic issues that may be important to Christians but we have to understand that in my view, we've taken our eyes off the ball a bit.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Important
  • May
  • Eyes

• Twyla Tharp put it together from the material I wrote and recorded over my whole career. I thought it was pretty good, but how objective could I be?

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Together
  • Pretty

• Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Time
  • War

• Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Effort
  • Prayer
  • Yield