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The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren. — Doug Larson
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well. — Henry David Thoreau
I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the… — Joanne Woodward
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. — Thomas Jefferson
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by… — Thomas Sowell
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. — Tacitus
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was… — Oscar Wilde
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. — Frank Laubach
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but… — Eugene H. Peterson
Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some… — Charles Grandison Finney
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient. — Edward McKendree Bounds
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word. — Oswald Chambers
One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in… — Oswald Chambers
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are… — Thomas Brooks
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary… — Thomas Brooks
Just because they broke the law doesn't mean they're condemned forever to a twilight status ... I believe that most Americans feel that for these… — John McCain
I thought that conclusion that we leaped to right after the election, that has been disproven statistically so many times, I don't know why Republicans… — Steve King
Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history… — Spike Lee
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make… — Edward McKendree Bounds
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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