"The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his."

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Source : John Stott (2016). “Reading Romans with John Stott”, p.113, InterVarsity Press

John Stott

#Prayer Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.”
“Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks”

Source : FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Sep 22, 2014
“Now is the month of Maying, When merry lads are playing. Fa la la... Each with his bonny lass, upon the greeny grass. Fa la la... The Spring clad all in gladness, Doth laugh at winter's sadness. Fa la la.”
“It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.”
“There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.”
“Crumb,â€ he said. â€œWhat?â€ A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. â€œGot it.â€ His grin spread.”

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