Want U Quotes - Page 19

• We are not responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on top of us or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.

  Oswald Chambers

  Want, Way, Personal Responsibility

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.60, Discovery House

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• Sometimes God allows us to explore the 'whys' of His instructions. Other times He wants us to obey 'because He said so.' Has God asked you to obey in a specific matter that still awaits your obedient response?

  Beth Moore

  Want, Matter, Sometimes

  Beth Moore (2013). “Jesus, the One and Only”, p.94, B&H Publishing Group

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• It's perfectly clear that the millions of babies, who are crying at this very moment, want unanimously to be next to a live body. Do you really think they're all wrong? Theirs is the voice of nature. This is the clear, pure voice of nature, without intellectual interference.

  Jean Liedloff

  Baby, Thinking, Voice

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• Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn't want us to miss the star and the seekers. It's easy to see why. Their story is our story.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Stars, Squares

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Giving Up, Integrity, Believe

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• I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.  I believe He wants us to be known for giving—of our time, our money, and our abilities—and to start a movement of ‘giving’ churches.  In so doing, we can alleviate the suffering in the world and change the reputation of His bride in America.

  Francis Chan

  Believe, America, Giving

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• Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Opposites, Giving, Enjoy Life

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• We have to face the unpleasant as well as the affirmative side of the human story, including our own story as a nation, our own stories of our peoples. We have got to have the ugly facts in order to protect us from the official view of reality. Otherwise, we are squeezed empty and filled with what other people want us to think and feel and experience.

  Bill Moyers

  Thinking, Reality, Views

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• You should not begin to pray for all you want until you realize that in God you have all you need.

  Timothy Keller

  Needs, Want, Praying

  Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.87, Penguin

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• One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As computer scientists, we call that artificial intelligence.

  Larry Page

  Goal, World, Want

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• We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.

  Harold MacMillan

  Together, Stronger, Want

  First broadcast to the nation as prime minister, London, January 17, 1957.

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• The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Exercise, Animal, Understanding

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to
  “have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

  Waylon Jennings

  Awards, Records, Want

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• Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beer, Politics, Want

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• God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

  George Carey

  Roles, Want, Kingdoms

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

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• As sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father, we are capable of so much more. For that, good intentions are not enough. We must do. Even more important, we must become what Heavenly Father wants us to be.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Daughter, Father, Son

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