Giving Quotes - Page 434

When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do.

I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

Play every shot so that the next one will be the easiest that you can give yourself.

Calvin: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? Hobbes: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Being a lifelong runner, knowing what running gives me, a variety of factors - that is what motivates me.

Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

The competition to hire the best will increase in the years ahead. Companies that give extra flexibility to their employees will have the edge in this area.

The only thing Madonna will ever do like a virgin is give birth in a stable.

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

We need to learn how to give a defense for our belief in Christ without getting defensive.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

I'm interested in - in that his power, if that is the word, is such that he has actually been able to be in a way a one-man wrecking crew in the area of deportment and how one proceeds politically on the stump. Marco Rubio is - is attempting, as you know, to a - to give [Donald] Trump a fight in Trump's own style. I'm not sure how that works, but - but certainly the indices are good.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion