Begin Quotes
4334 quotes by 2712 authors
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He…
— Oswald Chambers
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Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
— Thomas Adams
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
— William Gurnall
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Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
— Thomas Merton
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I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift…
— Jim Cymbala
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A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes…
— Tommy Franks
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The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more…
— Brian Tracy
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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
— Teresa of Avila
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of…
— James A. Baldwin
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality,…
— Susan Faludi
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America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement,…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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