Mattioli Puzzle Quotes & Sayings

Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God. — Gerhard Tersteegen

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites. — Edith Wharton

Things go wrong all the time; you can't be precious about it. — Tori Amos

I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true? — John Powell

It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them. — Elizabeth Hawes

The threat of her relapsing had created a strong gravitational field around their little family and was part of the reason he had never left home. He — Reif Larsen

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, independent and self-employed, with companions of their own age and selection ... — Rose Macaulay

has borne him to the seventh crystal heaven — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve. — Bill Bonner

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards. — Darrell Hammond