Pradip Kumar Rai Quotes & Sayings

Calvin warned against the common medieval (and modern) view that prayer was a way of putting on your best spiritual clothes, as it were, to impress God with your devoutness. He completely rejects the idea that God could be "appeased by devotions" or that he would hear prayers for "the sake of mere performance."179 In fact, those who would pray fruitfully must come with an attitude that is exactly the opposite. We must be ruthlessly honest about our flaws and weaknesses. We do all we can to avoid the "unreality" of putting on our best face. We should come to God knowing our only hope is in his grace and forgiveness and being honest about our doubts, fears, and emptiness. We should come to God with the "disposition of a beggar. — Timothy Keller

I'm a bit more of a suspense reader on the adult side, but my favorites were the ones I grew up reading. — Jennifer Armentrout

The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star ... — Donna Tartt

The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture-nothing, nothing." ...
"Everything's getting gray, and it'll be grayer. — Paul Bowles

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. — Graham Greene

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics. — Judy LaMarsh

The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity ... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace — Haile Selassie

But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments. — John McCain

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead. — Bill Hybels

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. — Theodor Adorno

To show that the creature cannot be so low but there is somewhat in God above the misery of the creature, his mercy shall triumph over the basest estate where he will show mercy. Therefore there is mercy above all mercy and love above all love, in that Christ was a servant. — Richard Sibbes

Cinder tapped her fingers against her hip. Repairs - what a very cyborg term. — Marissa Meyer

I can't,' I say.
Her mind closes like a shutter, with finality.
I wish, at that moment, that I had said something else. — Tade Thompson

This is..."
"You completely forgot what day it is, didn't you?"
"Eh?"
"It's your birthday!!"
"Huh... It is? Oh!"
"Idiot! — Shizuru Seino