"Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings."

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Source : D. A. Carson (1992). “A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers”, p.33, Baker Academic

D. A. Carson

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“The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
“I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen it in Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan and, heaven knows, Hillary Clinton. So the problem has not been solved.”
“Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.”
“AMC is a fantastic network that does diverse programming, and does it at a really good level and of great quality.”

Source : "Jamie Bell Talks Turn, Coming to Television, Physical Challenges, Researching the Historical Setting, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 18, 2014.
“Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.”
“I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.”
“There is no disputing that in the eyes of Schlechter, Teichmann or even Rubinstein, the backward pawn was something more substantial than lively piece play, but in our day the latter is more often preferred.”

Source : David Bronstein, Jim Marfia (1979). “Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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