Absurd Quote by Mary Collyer Download Open image “prayer must be, in its own nature, absurd and impertinent.” — Mary Collyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Nature Prayer
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. — Wesley L Duewel Copy Share Image
“Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an… — John F. MacArthur Copy Share Image
Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind;… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
swearing is, as I have said, learning to the ignorant, eloquence to the blockhead, vivacity to the stupid, and wit to the coxcomb. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs. — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger,… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent… — Mary Collyer Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
