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“We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.”

Source : Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.
“Something settiled inside me, something heavy and hard. It stayed there, and i could not think of one thing to make it go away. I thought, So this must be living, this must be the beginning of the time people later refer to as 'years ago, when I was young'.”
“Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.”
“I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed.”
“We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees. Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it. Prayer releases the grip of Satan's power; prayerlessness increases it. That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.”
“If you don't root for the Dodgers, you might not get into heaven,”
“My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.280, Harlequin
“People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.”

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