Promptly Journals Quotes & Sayings

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers. — John Irving

I believe firmly, that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking, and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, and ambition and self-seeking, and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us. There must be an emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside — D.L. Moody

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same. — David Pratt

I want to shake things up like 'Bloom County' did. — Stephan Pastis

And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair? — John Keats