Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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I had three intentions when I became a wrestler. One was to keep my integrity. Two was to give pro wrestling a more respectable image. And three was to be a role model to Jewish kids, who may not have thought they could do what I do.
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Conducting is about communication. You don't play any notes, but you communicate with the musicians.
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I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve; I write about them.
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When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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Having an infant is stressful, and I know I won't get a lot of sleep initially, but it will be worth it.
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That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.
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There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
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The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.
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If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.
