Giving Quotes - Page 455

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

Sometimes I go to the cinema and I see a movie where the directors or the filmmakers are telling me what to think, what to feel. They are giving me all the answers, and I'm like, "What am I doing here?" I try to have an active audience that are thinking and feeling for themselves.

Sometimes I become the comedy jukebox. I read the emails, people give me requests.The shows are just amazing; they're packed with people and they're so much fun to do.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Arrayed in a new body another mother may someday give birth so that with stronger limbs and brighter mind the old soul shall take the road to earth again.

If you give up your quiet life, the bow of Cupid will lose its power.

In our society, talking about sex is still a taboo, and of course many village chiefs don't want to hear about that issue. "You are trying to deviate us from our way of life, our traditions." And of course the argument they give is that these traditions date back to before our birth, and actually they accuse us of being funded by the outside world to subvert their way of life.

If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

The most important aspect of Christianity is not the work we do, but the relationship we maintain and the surrounding influence and qualities produced by that relationship. That is all God asks us to give our attention to, and it is the one thing that is continually under attack.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I love to live well, I love to eat well, I love to buy beautiful things, and to give a fantastic time to my friends.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.