Giving Quotes - Page 123

When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

I did not grope the wife of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter or the daughter of Sen. Christopher Coons. I don't put drugs in drinks or give drinks to underage females. And all those photos about me inappropriately touching girls, they are blown-up.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Face your doubts. Master you fears.

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

Dogs like to obey. It gives them security.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.

Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear themselves out

Of course it's contrived, but once you know how its contrived, you can understand the editorial viewpoint. CNN, for example, when you see where they're really coming from, you can subtract their bias, and get some sort of facts. Sometimes the amount of bias that is imposed in these things is so laughable that it gives you an extra layer of entertainment.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Be still, and know that I am God. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up -or 'Give in' and admit I am God'. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him.

Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death."

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

Stories don't give answers, but they do offer perspective.

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

When I see people of my likeness, or who are somebody that I feel connected to, doing something great, I fee like I can do it. It gives me some hope and vision.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Do not let the bread of the hungry mildew in your larder! Do not let moths eat the poor man's cloak. Do not store the shoes of the barefoot. Do not hoard the money of the needy. Things you possess in too great abundance belong to the poor and not to you. You are the thief who steals from God if you are able to help your neighbor and refuse to do it.

When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you.