Quotes of: Speak Keyword

For many of us prayer means nothing more than speaking with God. And since it usually seems to be a quite one-sided affair, prayer simply means talking to God. This idea is enough to create great frustrations. If I present a problem, I expect a solut...

The Way of the Heart: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry

In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice...

A Woman Speaks: The Lectures, Seminars and Interviews of Anaïs Nin

At around 6:00 a.m., April 30, 1987, we were awakened by a loud bull horn while inside our rented mobile home at an Ozark, Missouri trailer park. "Glenn Miller, Jack Jackson, Douglas Sheets, Tony Wydra, this is a United States Marshal. You have three...

A White Man Speaks Out

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to stop when you really want to...

Paul David Tripp

Christianity is just simple. Preach as if Jesus Christ is on the first seat listening to you. Work as if Jesus Christ is your immediate supervisor. Give as if you are giving to Christ. Eat and drink as if you are dining with Christ. Walk as if you ar...

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

God showed me something that day. It’s not about me. It’s not about how strong or how weak I am. It’s about speaking and declaring the WORD over someone else. What did God say about this issue? It’s about how strong God is, despite my weaknes...

Diana Rasmussen

Spiritual pride tends to speak of other persons’ sins with bitterness or with laughter and levity and an air of contempt. But pure Christian humility rather tends either to be silent about these problems or to speak of them with grief and pity. Spi...

Jonathan Edwards

Will Munny: Who's the fellow owns this shithole? [pause] Will Munny: You, fat man. Speak up. Skinny Dubois: Uh, I... I own this establishment. I bought the place from Greeley for a thousand dollars. [Will levels the shotgun, and speaks to someone sta...

Unforgiven

Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French. Josephine: Really? Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you we...

Big Fish

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of ...

Amy Tan

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.

The Cuckoo's Calling

Saying of the Prophet Understanding Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.

Caravan of Dreams

Saying of the Prophet Truth Speaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

Caravan of Dreams

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The Complete Essays

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

Coming of Age in Mississippi

...now Eli was my new neighbor. Which was fine with me because I sucked at Math. Math and I were not on speaking terms.

Consume

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

The Crane Wife

Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse

Darkest Before Dawn

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. [ ]

The Dhammapada

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Dune Messiah

If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words--food and exercise.

A Dish of Orts