Quotes by Authors - Page 78

Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.
Thomas Fuller
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
J.D. Salinger
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
George Mason
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years I would say the penitentiary thank you.
William Tecumseh Sherman
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
Thomas Jefferson
In fair weather prepare for foul.
Thomas Fuller
A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
Pearl Buck
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
A. Eustace Haydon
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.
Mark Twain
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
Sydney Smith
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
The minister's brain is often die "poor-box" of the church.
Henry B. Whipple
Preach the word be instant in season out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
Anonymous
Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.
Mary Baker Eddy
Prayer is the voice of faith.
Anonymous
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
Phillips Brooks
The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
John Masefield
Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
Anonymous
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished patience won And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall Ere thou listen ere thou answer Turn to Jesus tell Him all.
G. M. Taylor
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
Anonymous
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth Gendler
God dwells where we let God in.
Menachem Mendel
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
Thomas Lye
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.
Anonymous
I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.
Leo Tolstoy
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
Malcolm Boyd
We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
Austin Phelps
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
George E. Rees
To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
Madame de Stael
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."
Dick Eastman
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
André Gide
If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
Dick Eastman
Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
Charlotte Elliott
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
Anonymous
Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Prayer is a condition of mind an attitude of heart which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking in sighing or in audible words.
O. Hallesby
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
Phillips Brooks
Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.
Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
E.M.Bounds
Prayer is not an exercise it is the life.
Oswald Chambers
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
E.W. Kenyon
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.
Alexander Whyte
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
A.B. Simpson
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
Samuel Chadwick
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
Dean Register