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Us Quotes by William Barclay
- We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
- We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade…
- Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.
- But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will…
- Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be…
- It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at…
- It may well be that the world is denied miracle after miracle and triumph after triumph because we will not bring to Christ what we…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong