Giving Quotes - Page 688

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.

I think it's so important that the church displays what it can look like to be "one." Our society can be so fragmented, and there's an opportunity for the worshipping church to give some leadership into that area.

Please give reason. Raised taxes; marching us off to war again; approved more NSA snooping. WHO ARE THEY?!

Facts do not give advice.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

Explanations comfort us by giving the impression that there is an order in things.

If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

When I go see a performer, I don't go to criticize. I just go to be entertained. I don't go to give advice; I just go to enjoy.

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it.

When we rise out of [the night] into the new life and there begin to receive the signs, what can we know of that which - of him who gives them to us? Only what we experience from time to time from the signs themselves. If we name the speaker of this speech God, then it is always the God of a moment, a moment God.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue with the world-happening that steps up to him even in his environment, which consists partially of things. Or do you seriously think that the giving and taking of signs halts on the threshold of that business where an honest and open spirit is found?

I would say that the writers I like and trust have at the base of their prose something called the English sentence. An awful lot of modern writing seems to me to be a depressed use of language. Once, I called it "vow-of-poverty prose." No, give me the king in his countinghouse. Give me Updike.

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

When you value people, you give them freedom.

Give the lady what she wants!

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