“Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.” TryingFirstsOrderChristFailingBirthHolyLaysScriptureDoctrineMysteriousRelatePassagesBaptismHoly ScripturesEfficacy Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition) Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)
“We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.” NeedsSometimesMotivationalLinesAbilityFailingTalentLaysScaredNever QuitDeep Down Author:Chrissie Wellington
“Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring. * * * * * Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting spring.” ShouldLittlesFailingProveSpringBirdLaysFarewellCheerfulEverlastingPartingRobinsBoonHarbingerRequiem Author:William Wordsworth
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.” IfsKnowsLoveGivingDoeKnow HowFailingStressLaysPlusRestrictionTransactionsMinusGive And TakeBeautiful Love Book:Emma Goldman Source: Emma Goldman
“There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.” YearsWellsSometimesBornPleasureLordFailingMastersAdvantageLaysSatisfactionBurdenWoundsCharmPensRejoiceFar AwayLighters Author:Petrarch
“Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation and training turns it into a perfection.” PersonsCharacterTurnsFailingTrainingPerfectionLaysManipulationSkillful Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“The trouble with a great many men is that they spread themselves out over too much ground. They fail in everything. If they would only put their life into one channel, and keep it in, they would accomplish something. They make no impression because they do a little work here and a little work there....Lay yourselves on the altar of God, and then concentrate on some one work.” IfsMenLittlesToo MuchFailingTroubleLaysSpreadAccomplishImpressionGreat MenAltars Author:Dwight L. Moody
“The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.” PeopleKnowsWorldWaySpeakDecisionAnswersStudyFailingThis WorldFundamentalsLaysPunishmentBeing TrueParksDividedNelsonRosaConspiringConsonants Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.” MenBelieveHumansLongLife IsFoundFailingLaysExcellenceAvailableGreat MenDevotedBelieve In MeIdleStolenAnother ManGuardingExchangingPrecious TimeJealously Author:Seneca the Younger