Pleas Quotes

37 Pleas quotes by 34 unique authors

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
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
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
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer. — Matthew Henry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and very… — Jonathan Kozol
Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call… — Sathya Sai Baba
I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth… — Samuel Rutherford
Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!. — Jonathan Larson
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of… — Harold Washington

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