W Quotes
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“When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.”
“When we pray with our hearts and our souls I think we are being heard.”
“When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!”
“When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.”
“When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.”
Source: Seven Things The Holy Spirit Will Do For You
“When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires a keen understanding of the redemptive nature of our existence, which points to the glorious gospel of Christ.”
“When we pray, we bring G-d into the world”
“When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.”
“When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.”
Source: How to Pray Effectively: Volume One: Understanding the Rules of Prayer for Different Situations and How to Apply Them for Your Desired Outcome
“When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.”
“When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.”
“When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which we have any cause to be ashamed.”
“When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.”
Source: Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life
“When we prepare not our hearts for the things of God, evil things take over.”
“When we press into service Euler’s Formula – a formula used throughout physics – to explain everything, we get mocked by the cultists of scientism. You always mock genius, until you are forced to submit to it! Our vindication will be total and absolute. No one can defeat reason and logic.”
Source: Take Them to the Morgue
“When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.”
“When we pretend to have all the answers, we're not telling the truth.”
Source: Curious Faith
“When we prioritize and focus... and that becomes the anchor... the relationship becomes the anchor... and it trumphs everything else... than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving... because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.”
“When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“When we produce art of any kind, it almost always contains hidden meaning: metaphors and symbols that help to identify emotions that we may feel but haven’t yet named.”
Source: Paperback Therapy
“When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.”
“When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.”
“When we pull apart, we’re both breathing hard. “Going forward let’s not wait so long to do that again,” Amira says. “I can skip a dance class or two.” I shake my head. “Nope, nope. Kisses only come when we do the work we’re supposed to.” Amira pouts. “But that’s no fun.” “Where is the bossy girl from five minutes ago?” I ask, laughing. “She melted away with your kisses,” Amira says, before pressing her lips back against mine again. Despite what I just said, when she pulls away a moment later, it feels much too soon. “Okay, back to work mode,” she says. She steps away from me, as if distance will make this thing between us feel less all-consuming than it is. “I may need your help pulling this open,” Amira adds, moving to the door. “It can be tricky.” “Sure, okay.” I hover behind her as she inserts the key and gives it a turn while pulling on the metal handle.”
Source: If We Were a Movie
“When we pull away, he rests his hand on my thigh pressed next to his and we ride like that for a long time; the only time he moves his hand is to take better control of a sharp curve or to adjust the music, but he always puts it right back. And I always want him to.”
“When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view”
“When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.”
Source: The Great Gatsby: The Authentic Edition from Fitzgerald’s Original Publisher: The authentic edition from Fitzgerald’s original publisher
“When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.”
“When we push ourselves to pursue relentlessly external accomplishments, we often fail to align with the flow of life and forget to honor our need for reflection and inner retreat. . (“Finally unwind“)”
“When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.”
“When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.”
“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.”
Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson
“When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.”
“When we put gratitude first, what happens is we kind of shift the chemistry of the mind. We move from being acidic or egotistic to alkaline or divine.”
“When we put on a dress, we give it life; but in the red dress it is the opposite, it is not the dress that is given life, but the one who wears it!”
“When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.”
“When we put our hope in God's promises, we find peace.”
“When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.”
“When we put our running shoes on and fight tooth and nail to hide from someone, it’s because that’s the person who really matters. That’s the one person you fear will see what’s inside you and cringe. You’d rather live with the not-knowing than to give it a chance.”
Source: Pivot Line
“When we put people before possessions in our hearts, we are sowing seeds of enduring satisfaction.”
“When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.”
Source: The Great House of God
“When we put the antlers on the model and then draped over it the lace embroidery that we had made, we had to poke them through a £2,000 piece of work. But then it worked because it looks like she's rammed the piece of lace with her antlers. There's always spontaneity. You've got to allow for that in my shows.”
“When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.”
“When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.”
“When we put too much hope in a candidate or a party we set ourselves up for disappointment. When I see a poster with [Barak] Obama's image with the word "hope" under it, something in me cringes - our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness, the old hymn goes, all other ground is sinking sand.”
“When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.”
“When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.”
Source: WRITING WELL
“When we qualify for the help of the Lord, we can build boys, we can mend men, we can accomplish miracles in His holy service. Our opportunities are without limit.”
“When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed
“When we question our thoughts, we see that the craziness was never in the world, but in us.”
“When we question the universe, we interrogate it in terms that we understand. We have made those terms; we have invented the framework of questioning. When we receive answers from the universe, the answer is in terms of our invention. They are valid within that framework.”
Source: FLOWERS OF STARDUST