Offering Quotes

Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.

William Barclay

Prayer, Order, Use

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Albert Camus

Love, Beauty, Time

Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

Lenny Kravitz

Beautiful, Trying, World

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I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Leo Buscaglia

Light, People, Support

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There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Acceptance, Novelists

Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.394, A&C Black

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If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Richard Branson

Motivational, Inspiring, Powerful

Twitter post from Jan 24, 2018

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It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

Marc Maron

Integrity, Europe, Easy

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But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

Billy Collins

Light, Bird, Cups

Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

Lysa TerKeurst

Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

Twitter post from Apr 15, 2015

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Perhaps one of the most powerful keys to determining our experience of the months ahead comes from a shift in thinking that invites us beyond asking, 'What can I get from the world that exists,' to asking, 'What can I offer to the world that is awakening?' The way we answer this question as individuals becomes our collective answer to what comes next.

Gregg Braden

Powerful, Future, Thinking

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If we are not full of Him we have nothing to offer to anyone else.

Heidi Baker

God, Christian, Religious

Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.147, Charisma Media

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To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

Albert Einstein

Witty, People, Advice

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Larry Norman

Men, Fishing, Bait

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It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

Bill Cosby

Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Edmund Husserl

Understanding, Criticism, Philosopher

Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.

Dave Reichert

Years, America, Identity

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Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

Matthew Lesko

Believe, Mean, Guarantees

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An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.

Leon Kass

Idaho, Kind, Advertising

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Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

Ben Hecht

Yellowstone, Chicago, Lasts

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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Johannes Tauler

Soul, Desire, Guests

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But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.

John Galliano

Real, Good Day, Boys

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Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s.

Jim Gerlach

Senior, Numbers, Drug

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I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

Sam Waterston

Careers, Done, Sometimes

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In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

George Canning

Littles, Dutch, Matter

Dispatch, in cipher, to the English Ambassador at the Hague, 31 January 1826, in Sir Harry Poland 'Mr Canning's Rhyming 'Dispatch' to Sir Charles Bagot' (1905)

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We are offering to the American public a line of delicious Italian-American foods. They will be available through the Internet, shopping networks and national store distribution.

Rocco DiSpirito

Italian, Shopping, Lines

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