Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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• Obedient
• Love God

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  Yul Brynner
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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • You
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Work
  • Thinking
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• I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
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• But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • You
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• I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Up
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• It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • America
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• I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
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• Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

  

  Hal Linden
  • Play
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• Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Truth
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• I like eating out. I like buying beautiful paintings and being surrounded by beautiful things. I have to finance that life. I can barely afford a pension scheme because I don't make enough money.

  

  Andrew Motion
  • Life
  • Money
  • Beautiful

• The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Passion
  • Envious
  • Rust

• No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
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• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  

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  • Life
  • Pleasure
  • Retiring

• Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

  

  William Goldman
  • I Can

• Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • Time
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  • Moment

• At no point did I ever doubt I would be as near as anybody could be to England's Elvis Presley. Even from eight or nine years old, I thought, Well, I'll be the greatest rock star in England. I just made up my mind.

  

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  • Mind
  • Doubt

• You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Pleasure
  • Prove
  • Obedient