Fessed Def Quotes & Sayings

There is no such thing as a black middle class. — H. Rap Brown

Connection starves suspicion. — Fawn Weaver

I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion - or an itch. — Hisaye Yamamoto

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure. — Lawren Harris

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. — Bayard Taylor

There were many empresses and queens in power throughout the world. It is said that these legendary women ruled judicially, and that they brought about a most remarkable amity among kingdoms and the nations that surrounded them. And as for subjects, well, you've never heard a single instance of revolt, have you? Indeed not, for these women were supreme leaders, and one of the greatest mysteries in history is that they lost their power. I suppose it had something to do with a male heir, somewhere or other, who bored by such a peaceful existence,thought it might be more interesting if the question of authority were decided by brute force. — Nancy Madore

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney

How I Handle Chaos when you awake to find your life in disarray, crumbling apart tumbling like rocks rolling downhill into a rapid avalanche pick up your broken scattered life and put it together again The Nakedness of Arrogance — Jerry T. Johnson

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. — Elliott Abrams

That we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. — Veronica Roth

Satan wants us to focus on the problem, not the Provider. He constantly points to what seems to be rather than to what God has promised to do. If we stop spending time with the Lord in prayer, the concerns of the physical world snatch our attention and dominate us, while the spiritual senses deaden and the promises fade.
I am absolutely convinced that the number one reason that Christians today don't pray more is because we do not grasp the connection between prayer and the promises of God. We are trying as individuals and churches to pray 'because we're supposed to' without a living faith in the promises of God concerning prayer. No faith life of any significance can be maintained by this 'ought-to' approach. There must be faith in God at the bottom.
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When real faith in God arises, a certainty comes that when we call, he will answer ... that when we ask, we will receive ... that when we knock, the door will be opened ... — Jim Cymbala