You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. ~John Bunyan
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God bless us everyone! Said Tiny Tim, the last of all. ~Charles Dickens
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. ~Spanish Proverb
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In Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world, we have 1,100 gangs and 120,000 gang members so it is a daunting, complex social dilemma. ~Greg Boyle
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The West is dead; you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her. ~Charles Marion Russell
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A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment. ~American Proverb
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To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven. ~Chinese Proverb
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Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in terms of how much time you spend away from your family or the amount of time you spend doing the type of work that you maybe don't consider as fun to do as other type of work. ~Christophe Beck
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The sermon is now the true poppy of literature. ~David Swing
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If fortune smiles, who does not? If fortune does not, who does? ~Chinese Proverb
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I did'nt really care. It did'nt bother me at all. ~Vivienne Westwood
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Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach. ~Leigh Bardugo
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To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better. ~French Proverb
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Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
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What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed. He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? ~Thomas Carlyle
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A live dog is better than a dead lion. ~Irish Proverb
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A man without a wife is like a vase without flowers. ~African Proverb
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Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. ~Scottish Proverb
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I'm a songwriter first. ~Carole King
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