Pleas Quotes
37 quotes by 35 authors
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How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick…
— Nellie Bly
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It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
— Matthew Henry
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Prayer is no fitful, short-lived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God's…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your…
— Ole Hallesby
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For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated…
— Pope Francis
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Our Heavenly Father hears the prayers of His children across the earth pleading for food to eat, for clothes to cover their bodies, and for…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.…
— John Owen
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Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held…
— Thomas Harris
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I despise and abhor the pleas on behalf of that infamous practice, vivisection... I would rather submit to the worst of deaths, so far as…
— Robert Browning
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Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy…
— Murray Rothbard
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In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special pleas...
— Han Fei
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity…
— Eugene V. Debs
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And with the money from your corn, from your rents, and from the issues of pleas in your courts, and from your stock, arrange the…
— Robert Grosseteste
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When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment.…
— Ole Hallesby
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Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the…
— John Eliot
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No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and…
— Emily St. John Mandel
Who Wrote These Pleas Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 37 Pleas Quotes, led by these top contributors: