"When the fire of prayer goes out, the……" — George Carey
"When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over."
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32 Quotes by George Carey
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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between…
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And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.
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At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear…
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If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me.…
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A child born in a wealthy country is likely to consume, waste, and pollute more in his lifetime than 50…
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People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
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What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the…
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Jesus was a management expert too.
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Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.
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The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight…
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The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced,…
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From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did…
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More Barrenness Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged…
— John Quincy Adams
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge…
— Petrarch
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THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into…
— William Carlos Williams
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
— Socrates
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives…
— Samuel Johnson
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Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
— Donald M. MacKinnon
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The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even…
— Loren Eiseley
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