W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.”
“When our desire for truth outweighs our fear of change, we make choices that serve an open heart rather than a closed mind.”
“When our desires are fulfilled, and we still feel unhappy - this is the moment we begin the process of letting go.”
“When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.”
“When our dreams don’t come true, sometimes we can hand them down to our children and hope that they will come true for them. The joy can be immeasurable just the same.”
Source: Isabel's Hand-Me-Down Dreams
“When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.”
Source: Life is Tough, But God is Faithful: How to See God's Love in Difficult Times
“When our embassy is attacked in Benghazi by terrorists and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Russia invades Ukraine and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Syria crosses the red line and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When Iran launches tests of ballistic missiles and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. When North Korea attacks Sony Pictures and there is no response, you get more bad behavior. In other words, Mrs. Clinton, you cannot lead from behind. We must respond when we are attacked or provoked.”
“When our emotional and rational brains are in conflict (as when we're enraged with someone we love, frightened by someone we depend on, or lust after someone who is off limits, a tug-or-war ensues. This war is largely played out in the theater of visceral experience - your gut, your heart, your lungs - and will lead to physical discomfort and psychological misery.”
“When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.”
“When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.”
“When our emotions are in harmony with each other, we find ourselves in a state of calm.”
“When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because theres a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of The Vampire Diaries where Tyler is the first successful hybrid thats made.”
“When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see.”
Source: Beauty: A Study of Beauty in Celtic Spirituality and the Human Spirit
“When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.”
Source: Money, Possessions, and Eternity
“When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.”
Source: Picture of Dorian Gray
“When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.”
“When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.”
“When our Faith Resonates with God Undeniable/Unwavering Intents, Trust and Faith is built against losses/bareness.”
Source: THE HONEYMOON: A SACRED AND UNFORGETTABLE SAVOUR OF A BLISSFUL MARITAL JOURNEY
“When our father Adam came into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, with him.”
Source: Journal of Discourses
“When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she had abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.”
Source: The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“When our father does the things he needs to do in the world, we understand it is his due. If our mother does the things she needs to do in the world, we feel she has abandoned us. It is a miracle she survives our mixed messages, written in society's most poisoned ink. It is enough to drive her mad.”
Source: The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography
“When our feet hurt, we hurt all over.”
“When our feet talk to us, we listen.”
“When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us.”
Source: Chocolate Box Girls: Marshmallow Skye: Marshmallow Skye
“When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."”
Source: Labels & Libels
“When our focus is on property and possession, we are subject to panic, heartbreak, and distress.”
“When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues”
“When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.”
“When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And that robust, democratic dialogue more often than not lifted up the best available evidence and asserted what was more likely to be true than not.”
“When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself.”
“When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our creator, and among these life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life being one of them. I still believe that.”
“When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.”
“When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.”
Source: Enchiridion
“When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.”
Source: Over the Top
“When our God who is Mercy comes like a shout into your darkness, when the Father stoops down and tenderly picks up the pieces of your broken life, when Jesus steps in front of what you could have deserved, and when the the Lord of Heaven says, “I still want you,” after you thought no one would, it is the most amazing truth of all. I have been overwhelmed by this lavish kingdom gift called Mercy.”
Source: A Beautiful Offering: Returning God's Love with Your Life
“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us”
“When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.”
“When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.”
Source: Terrify No More: Young Girls Held Captive and the Daring Undercover Operation to Win Their Freedom
“When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.”
“When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.”
“When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.”
“When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.”
“When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: “Nobody loves me” or “Nobody cares about me”, which can make it hard for other people to love us.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“When our heart is closed, it creates a lonely and isolated feeling. It prevents us from seeing the love that surrounds us all the time. It is when we begin to open our heart that
we discover a feeling of oneness in love with other people, with nature, with the trees, with the stones, with the ocean and with the blue sky.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.”
“When our hearts are empty, deception can fill them with lies.”
“When our hearts, minds, and souls are deep within the reality of living loved, we discover that most of those "rules" from Sunday school are simply our new characteristics and our family traits. They are the fruit born of a meaningful, life-changing relationship—they are the flowers of life in the Vine.”
Source: Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
“When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.”
Source: Compassion in action: setting out on the path of service