"A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life."

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R. Kent Hughes

#Prayer Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Duration Quotes

“A good beginning makes a good end.”
“God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.”
“Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.”
“Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.”
“My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to decode because it is based on only four phrases: 'Huh,' 'I dunno,' 'It's not my turn,' and 'I do everything around here!”

Source : Teresa Bloomingdale (1982). “Murphy must have been a mother!: (and other laws I live by)”, Doubleday Books
“Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the personâ€™s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most ofÂ us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs â€¦ Individuals transform when thereâ€™s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction theyâ€™ve already got...”
“There's something about her," Caire said in a low voice. "She cares for everyone about her, yet neglects herself. I want to be the one who cares for her.”
“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”

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