Giving Quotes - Page 38

• Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

  Jerry Bridges

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Religious

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate”, p.42, Tyndale House

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• Therefore, I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.

  Paul the Apostle

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Kings

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• I endeavored to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for all his mercies to me, for his preservation of me through all the dangers I have passed, and all the blessings which he has bestowed upon me, for I know I fall far short of my obligations

  Robert E. Lee

  Father, War, Fall

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.45, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• ...our state will not...secede. Have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good president - at least we ought to give him a fair trial.

  John Hunt Morgan

  War, Doubt, President

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• Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mistake, Trying, Stronger

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.79, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Even though Eve ate the fruit first, God went looking for Adam. It had been Adam whom God had revealed himself to as LORD God in the context of giving Adam divine instruction.

  Tony Evans

  Men, Fruit, Firsts

  Tony Evans (2012). “Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream”, p.12, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.

  Marvin Harris

  Dirty, Animal, Pigs

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• Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Christian, Fasting, Three

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• When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Broken, Together, Fasting

  Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.11, Charisma Media

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• Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

  Jentezen Franklin

  Heal Itself, Fasting, Body

  Jentezen Franklin (2014). “Fasting: Opening the Door to a Deeper, More Intimate, More Powerful Relationship with God”, p.40, Charisma Media

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• We don't give a damn what you or anybody else on this planet thinks. We didn't sink those ships for you. We did it for the whales.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Thinking, Whales

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• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Animal, Judging

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• In a rook and pawn ending, the rook must be used aggressively. It must either attack enemy pawns, or give active support to the advance of one of its own pawns to the queening square.

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Squares, Support, Enemy

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• The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

  Robert Grudin

  Mind, Attention, Forget

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is not necessary to suffer in order to give birth to desire. But when you have suffered and you have given birth to desire, so what? You've got a desire. Turn your attention to the desire. Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff -- Abraham

  Esther Hicks

  Struggle, Thinking, Order

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• Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

  Robert Teeter

  Government, Years, Attention

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• Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

  Keith Henson

  Feelings, Attention, Kites

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• The most important thing you will ever give your children is a little of your time.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Important, Attention

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• Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

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• Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

  G. Stanley Hall

  Dancing, Support, Feelings

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• The challenge will be to get the big corporate customers giving them their business, but it might be difficult in reality.

  Chris Avery

  Reality, Challenges, Might

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• Integrity gives you real freedom because you have nothing to fear since you have nothing to hide.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Integrity, Real

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.222, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The past is dead except for the life you give it

  Myles Munroe

  Past, Self Improvement, Improvement

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• We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world to make an impact and make a difference

  Myles Munroe

  Impact, Differences, Self Improvement

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• To give them what I never had heals me. Some days I look at them and almost start to cry. I think, How can I love them more than I did the day before? But it keeps growing.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Adoption, Looks

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