“God spoke to me clearly and said, 'Did I give my son Jesus on the cross expecting nothing in return?' God bankrupted heaven and gave the best gift he could give. He gave the best offering he could give. What did God need? He needed sons and daughters, he gave the very thing he needed. You can bring God a gift fully expecting something in return. Get to the phone!'” NeedsGivingSaidJesusHeavenSonReturnNeededDaughterCrossesPhonesSpokesMy SonOfferingExpectingSon And DaughterBest GiftExpecting Nothing In ReturnExpecting SomethingExpecting Something In Return Author:Paul Crouch
“Led by myself and two colleagues, the course offers a newly developed model of spiritual direction that draws on both the age-old wisdom of the church and more recent perspectives. I call it the Passion/Wisdom Model of Spiritual Direction, and I see it as offering the opportunity for our interior worlds and supernatural reality to meet.” WorldTwoRealityAgeSpiritualPassionCoursesOpportunityChurchPerspectiveOffersModelsDrawsOfferingColleaguesInteriorsSpiritual DirectionOld Wisdom Author:Larry Crabb
“The Spirit is speaking strongly to me for you to place a $50 offering on the altar, when you do, God will do a now miracle.” SpiritMiracleGods WillOfferingAltars Author:Steve Munsey
“It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.” PeopleOffersOfferingFulfilling Author:Wayne Dyer
“But surrender also means your back's to the wall and saying, "Okay, I give up." But rather it's a joyful self-offering. When you come to the point of realizing that "I never get it right. I always make a mess of things; I can't do anything right. Let him do it." And then you ask his power to do it through you and you find suddenly that it works that way.” WayGivingMeanI CanSelfAsksRealizingWallGiving UpOkaySurrenderMessOfferingJoyful Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.” WantAsksSacrificeSpecialLet MeSeedsSignificantSoilOfferingAtonement Author:Benny Hinn
“I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.” ShowsAmountOfferingShowing OffTurned Down Author:Kevin Hart
“Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.” AcceptingOffersDepartmentOffering Author:George A. Romero
“Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna.” GivingMeanDoeNeglectOfferingDetachmentKrishna Author:Radhanath Swami
“Offering 'comprehensive' reform usually means years of arguing and horse-trading among pressure groups to get anything done. By the time all the special interests are appeased or bought off, the resulting elephantine legislation typically looks nothing like what was intended. In short, big-government medicine usually doesn't work on big-government sickness. If President Obama wants 'comprehensive' change, it would be better simply not to spend any more money we don't have.” IfsWantYearsLooksMeanDoneBigsGovernmentWould BePresidentInterestGroupsSpecialHorsePressureMedicineArguingReformSicknessPresident ObamaOfferingMore MoneyLegislationTradingComprehensiveSpecial InterestsBig GovernmentPressure Groups Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“The reading of literature opens our eyes, offering us new perspectives on things that we can evaluate and adopt.” EyeReadingLiteraturePerspectiveOfferingEvaluateNew PerspectivePerspective On Things Author:Alister E. McGrath
“People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun - the giver of light.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsDoeLightSunOfferingGiver Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“I like thinking of the writer as a kind of curator; the collection as curiosity cabinet - in a non-demeaning, non-objectifying sense - but an array, a set of offerings.” ThinkingKindCuriosityCollectionsOfferingCabinetsDemeaningCuratorObjectifying Author:Leslie Jamison
“Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope.” PeopleGivingMadeJobsYoungCultureCasesEconomyYouthHip HopMeaningfulEntrepreneurshipRadicalHipsAlternativesHopsOur SocietyOfferingDeclineAmerican CultureAffordableLiving Wage Author:Bakari Kitwana
“The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.” SoulCharacterStoriesPossibilityTruth IsOffersMy SoulDawnRejectionWrestlingOfferingMuseSystematicNothing But The Truth Author:Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
“Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system became so pervasive that the Tunisian scholar Larbi Sadiki described countries who used it as dimuqratiyyat al-khubz - "democracies of bread." But the problem with this system of offering bread in exchange for genuine democracy is that it can never last - sooner or later, the bread will run out, and people will start demanding bread and roses too.” PeopleWayCountryProblemRunningLastsUsedDemocracyRoseLoyaltyGenuineBreadObedienceAlsOfferingScholarRulersSooner Or LaterEgypt Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“I use a lot of specific places in my songs - traditionally, a lot from Minneapolis and St. Paul, where I grew up. Most people, especially when you get into international touring, have not been there. So you say, "Well, isn't it risky to talk about the corner of Franklin Avenue and Lyndale?" If you do it right, someone should say, "God, I know a corner like that." Offering specific details to describe something universal.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldWellsUseSongGrewGrew UpUniversalInternationalDetailsCornersOfferingAvenuesTouringFranklinMinneapolis Author:Craig Finn
“My god, people are selling their work and people are reading it! The horror! That MFA programs have to advertise that they'll let you write YA or fantasy or what-have-you is just absurd, but we do, because the presumption is that they're closed to that sort of thing. You're offering an MFA in creative writing? Teach people how to write well, worry about that part, let the writers come up with the stories.” PeopleWritingWellsStoriesReadingTeachWorryFantasyCreativeHorrorProgramCome UpAbsurdSellingOfferingCreative WritingPresumption Author:Tod Goldberg
“Prioritizing listening to their child or adolescent is extremely important. It can be very hard to listen to someone who is upset or troubled without offering advice or suggestions or otherwise telling him or her what to do.” ChildrenImportantHardAdviceListeningUpsetOfferingSuggestionsPrioritizeOffering Advice Author:Timothy Carey
“Sometimes offering support and making yourself available when the child or adolescent is ready to talk can be the most helpful you can be.” ChildrenSometimesSupportReadyAvailableHelpfulOffering Author:Timothy Carey
“Demonstrating faith and optimism in the child or adolescent's ability to work things out in their own time and in their own way can be very difficult but it is possible to do this while also offering assistance.” WayChildrenDifficultAbilityOptimismOfferingAssistanceDemonstrating Author:Timothy Carey
“After Bottle Rocket, I started getting acting work. People started offering me roles in movies. It wasn't something that I thought about as a kid growing up in Texas. Actually, maybe I would have thought of it as a possibility, but it seemed so crazily far-fetched to think that you could work in movies that I really didn't ever quite imagine it. It was just lucky.” PeopleThinkingKidsActingRolesGrowing UpGrowingImaginePossibilityLuckyBottlesTexasOfferingRocketsKids Growing UpBottle Rocket Author:Owen Wilson
“And then there are encouragements to use heterosexual pornography or heterosexual images to encourage heterosexual attraction. I find it a golden idol, honestly, where we have been hypocritical to ask people to resolve this issue in a way that we haven't encouraged other people with other struggles to resolve. I'm looking at offering biblical holiness, not an unrealistic expectation for people that will leave them disappointed.” PeopleWayHas BeensUseAsksStruggleIssuesHavensExpectationsEncouragementAttractionHonestlyGoldenHolinessResolveDisappointedIdolsOfferingBiblicalPornographyHypocriticalUnrealistic ExpectationsOthers Struggles Author:Alan Chambers
“t's really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we're offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life. It's about pursuing a relationship with Christ.” LooksPersonsChristStruggleIssuesEncouragementOfferingDiscipleship Author:Alan Chambers
“I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.” IfsKnowsShowsAustraliaMuseumsOfferingBackwards Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.” IfsWorldTryingVersionsBeing The BestOffering Author:Erin Willett
“I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.” ThinkingCareJobsStrongPresidentEconomyProgressElementsUniversalPaidIncomeHealth CareRisingAgendasOfferingCoverageStrong EconomyUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.” IfsProblemJobsUniverseRolesFitOfferingNo ProblemSaying No Author:Karen Allen
“I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.” IfsThinkingMightTodayArtistPoorNiceOfferingBeing Nice Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way things were done because we were just starting. But we needed the new material anyway. And it's nice, every time that Matt Besser does the show he does a whole new bit. And it's nice to offer up a place where people can be that experimental while offering some solid, proven comedy as well.” PeopleKnowsWayWellsDoeDoneWholeShowsBitsComedyNiceMaterialsNeededOffersStartingOfferingProven Author:B. J. Porter
“If you could read some of the stories that we had before us of parents of children dying of, let's say, bone cancer. Or people who dealt with family members drowning in their own bodies, in the end, suffering without any hope of modern medical science easing their pain or offering any comfort. With the absolute knowledge that they were going to die anyway. I can't quite comprehend how we could want those people to continue to suffer that extreme agony on the understanding that it is the will of a creator or some other philosophical concept.” PeopleIfsWantChildrenI CanEndsStoriesBodyPainSufferingDiesParentUnderstandingModernDyingComfortMembersConceptsAbsolutesPhilosophicalCancerCreatorExtremesBonesMedicalOfferingAgonyDrowningFamily MembersMedical ScienceChildren DyingBone Cancer Author:Kelvin Ogilvie
“Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?" - and whose writings offered novel perspectives for considering that question (much more perspective-offering than rigorous argument!)” WritingTwoNovelPerspectiveArgumentPhilosophicalAncientPhilosopherOfferingConsideringPhilosophical Questions Author:Philip Kitcher
“Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce, Proust, and Mann, and Joseph Campbell singled out Joyce and Mann as special favorites. To see them as offering "possibilities for living", as I do, isn't to identify any distinctive commonality. After all, many great authors would fall under that rubric.” PeopleDifferentFallCoursesFictionSpecialPossibilityTaughtAppealsOfferingDistinctiveJoyceCommonalityProustGreat AuthorRubrics Author:Philip Kitcher
“Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.” LongSaidPathPeriodsRepublicanBillsImmigrationPrimariesVulnerabilityImmigrantsVotersOfferingCitizenshipComprehensiveLong Periods Of TimeMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.” WorldWayYearsFirstsBookPurposeParentResultsNumbersFourWrittenMetsAncientDecadesPeacefulAround The WorldWarriorPreparationGreekPurpose Of LifeOfferingMentorAncient GreekLineagePeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“I realized that people don't quite understand what I do when I was the new kid on the block and a lot of Hollywood was offering me fairly cheesy projects.” PeopleKidsProjectsHollywoodI RealizedBlockOfferingCheesy Author:DJ Shadow
“With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.” KnowsFeltPaintingAbstractOffering Author:Kurt Wagner
“I think of the Dalai Lama as a doctor of the mind offering medicine and specific counsel and cures in the way a great doctor would.” ThinkingWayMindDoctorsMedicineCuresOfferingLamaDalai Author:Pico Iyer
“The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."” PastCommunityResponseOfferingInnovativeRenaissanceTimes Past Author:Judith Hanson Lasater
“Donald Trump is reinforcing harmful stereotypes and offering a dog whistle to his most hateful supporters. It's a disturbing preview of what kind of president he'd be.” KindPresidentDogTrumpOfferingStereotypeSupporterDisturbingHatefulPreview Author:Hillary Clinton
“Real scientists are required to play by the rules without exception. Creationists follow the rules of science only so long as it is expedient. Then they resort to miracles. But resorting to miracles is not offering an explanation: it is asserting that no real explanation exists. Whenever creationists resort to miracles, they are admitting that their system cannot account for the facts of nature; it cannot explain the world.” WorldLongRealPlayFactsAtheismScientistAccountsMiraclePositive AtheismExplanationExceptionOfferingResortsAdmitting Author:Frank Zindler
“Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.” LittlesCountryPlayRealityMightGamesVisionNovelBrotherArgumentDetailsBrilliantTerroristOur CountryStakesOfferingStorytellerFuriousGamerGamingHoping For The BestTerrorist AttacksHackersHope For The FutureLittle BrotherNew VisionAlternate Realities Author:Jane McGonigal
“It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.” WayLooksHardProblemTrumpSolutionsHopefulOffering Author:Jane Mayer
“I am not offering this is a critique of the internet, its just that there are a lot of factors involved. It does offer plenty of possibilities. It also has, it can have, a cheapening effect and I think both exist and I think its true of everything. You could say that about the printing press.” ThinkingDoeEffectsPossibilityInternetInvolvedOffersPressesFactorsPlentyOfferingCritiquePrintingPrinting Press Author:Noam Chomsky
“The current drum sample market isn't offering enough options in terms of how the drums are captured.” EnoughTermCurrentsOfferingCapturedSample Author:Joey Sturgis
“There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.” PeopleRealTodaySpiritualSongCultureChurchMessagesNewsSingingProgramHungerSeekingOfferingPreachingGood NewsBad NewsSinging Songs Author:John C. Maxwell
“As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.” ShouldJobsPlanetsCallingSolutionsOrdinaryAskingGreenConservativeWelfareChampionOfferingBakingAsking Questions Author:Van Jones
“I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack] Obama, people in their teens and twenties who were determined to make history and who were too idealistic to think that what they were trying to do might be impossible. They proved that visionary pragmatism can win over the majority. That comes from a particular place in your heart that generation Y is offering America. They just can't afford to be naive now, in terms of the ferocity of the opposition.” PeopleThinkingTryingHeartMightAmericaYoungWinningTermChanceRightsImpossibleGenerationsParticularHeroMembersTwentiesMajorityDeterminedCivil RightsBarackOppositionOfferingTeensNaiveVisionariesPragmatismIdealisticFerocityYoung GenerationGeneration Y Author:Van Jones
“If we offer something to Bangladesh, it's obvious that Bangladesh is offering something to us. And why shouldn't Bangladesh be able to keep its promises? Economically it's full of resources and can stand on its feet. Politically it seems to me led by trained people. The refugees who took shelter here are going home.” PeopleIfsHomeSeemsAbleFeetPromiseOffersResourcesObviousOfferingShelterRefugeeGoing HomeBangladesh Author:Indira Gandhi
“OPEC production went from 30 million barrels a day to 33 million. They flooded the market, and it's lost them a lot of money. Look at the Saudis: they just floated a $17.5 billion debt offering, they earlier borrowed $10 billion from a group of international banks; they're selling part of Aramco - they're desperate for money.” LooksLostMillionsGroupsInternationalProductionsDebtBillionsSellingDesperateOfferingLots Of MoneyBorrowedSaudisBarrelsOpec Author:Gary Shilling