Want U Quotes - Page 13

• We can't anticipate and provide for life's trials, but the Lord can and does. The Lord wants us to thirst not after a quick fix to our problems but after the life-altering refreshment of His provision.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Doe, Trials, Want

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• The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Sex, Boys

  "Feminism Is Fashionable For Nigerian Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie". Interview with Michel Martin, wnpr.org. March 18, 2014.

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• When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us, I want us to remember who we are. We are Queenslanders. We're the people that they breed tough, north of the border. We're the ones that they knock down, and we get up again.

  Anna Bligh

  Grieving, People, Community

  Press Conference In EMQ, Kedron, statements.qld.gov.au. January 13, 2011.

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• He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

  Bill Hybels

  Prayer, Father, Want

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.60, SPCK

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• There is something infinitely better than doing a great thing for
  God, and the infinitely better thing is to be where God wants us to
  be, to do what God wants us to do, and to have no will apart from
  His.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Want, Great Things

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• The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Want, Sovereign, Knows

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• God wants us to relieve suffering, pursue justice, facilitate reconciliation, and free the heart to love, but He desires for us to do so in a way that reveals His Character. It is not enough just to do well for others or to do things well. We must do well in our unique way in order to reveal the vast creativity of a God who loves to bring change through the most unlikely channels.

  Dan B. Allender

  Character, Heart, Creativity

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• Why do you always start after my beat then rush to catch up? Do you want us to stay behind?

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Orchestra, Want

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• The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Jesus, Impossible Things, Humanity

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• Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

  Bob Goff

  Eye, People, Needs

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.181, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Moon, Hands

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.292

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• Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Giving, Mind

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Want, Commerce, Marketers

  Thomas M. Disch (2000). “The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Wish, Want

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• I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." I love modern architecture, but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.

  Pipilotti Rist

  Beautiful, Believe, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If people say harsh words to me though, I don't care. It's a risk to my life. The Taliban don't want us to be working, so they'll shoot us. And women who break their rules, they put acid on them. I said, if they shoot me, OK, but if they put acid on me, I will be alive as a dead body. I was always so afraid of that.

  Malina Suliman

  People, Risk, Alive

  "Afghan graffiti artist risks her life to challenge the burqa under the Taliban". Interview with Katie Booth, womenintheworld.com. May 21, 2015.

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• The Bible makes clear a basic truth that we self-centered humans find difficult to accept, namely, that the natural universe was not created primarily for us. There is no doubt that God wants us to enjoy it and even use its resources to optimize a good life for ourselves. But the ultimate purpose of creation is worship. Nature and all living things were created to glorify God.

  Tony Campolo

  Good Life, Self, Doubt

  Tony Campolo (1995). “Carpe Diem: Seize the Day”, Thomas Nelson

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• We don't have to be perfect to be a blessing. We are asked only to be real, trusting in His perfection to cover our imperfection, knowing that one day we will finally be all that Christ saved us for and wants us to be.

  Gigi Graham

  Christian, Real, Blessing

  Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire

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• God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex.

  Max Anders

  Valentines Day, Sex, Want

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• God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

  Jackie Pullinger

  Heart, Feet, Want

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• What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Hate, Real, Hypocrite

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• God wants us to make Jesus Christ the central figure in our church--not just say that we do, but actually do it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Church, Want

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• We may be forced to consume considerable time before the spirit cooperates. For example, God would like to enlarge the scope of our prayer to include the nations in order to defeat all the behind-the-scene works of Satan. Or He may want us to intercede for all sinners worldwide for the entire church.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Order, Church

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.585, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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