"Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for."

-- Sam Shoemaker

#Emotion Quotes #Praying Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.”
“Acting's not therapy, but it can be therapeutic.”
“You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame.”
“It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony.”
“Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.”
“I HAVE ALWAYS believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.”
“I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.”

Source : "Beyond world peace: Getting through the dreaded question-and-answer portion of #MissUniverse". www.yahoo.com. January 26, 2015.
“It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 33, p. 74, 1926.

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