"What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient."

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Elisabeth Elliot

#Prayer Quotes #Giving Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80, two full generations before the date between 130 and 150 given by the more radical New Testament critics of today.”
“I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.”
“It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.”

Source : Letter to F.W Weber in 1950. "Maxfield Parrish". Book by Coy L. Ludwig, 1973.
“There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.”
“I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster
“The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that when that primary brain perishes, you can feel that that person did not totally perish from the earth... because they live on in a 'second neural home'?... In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them... Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain... a collective corona that still glows.”
“That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.”
“Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.”

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