"In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking."

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Jane Frances de Chantal

#Prayer Quotes #Talking Quotes #Listening Quotes

“Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.133, Oxford University Press
“You choose sin. You practice sin.”
“When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.”
“I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.”

Source : "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the beginning of the day.”
“I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!”
“What we need to do is we need to say, how can - how can we operate independently in terms of putting together these various technologies in order to be able to make the world a better place?”
“I am a compassionate human being. I am who I am.”

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