Importunate Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will… — Nicolas Chamfort
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. — Edward McKendree Bounds
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it. — Adoniram Judson
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate… — Aldous Huxley
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ — Edward McKendree Bounds
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us… — Walter Pater
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or… — Phyllis McGinley
Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall… — Richard of Saint Victor
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow… — Edmund Burke
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. — Malcolm De Chazal
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied. — Francois Fenelon
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible… — Judith Martin

Who Wrote These Importunate Quotes

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