#prop

If you offer some good plans to a person and you face the rejection, don't ever mind bad. When you planned something for a person, a person may, too was planning something for himself. To speak openly, even your sincere offering to God is too experience a rejection. Don't you remember the phrase "Man proposes and God disposes". ↗

— Manish Kathuria

#offers #plan #proposal #rejection #remember

Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#courtship #dignity #empowerment #happiness #husbands

I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen. ↗

— Kate Braverman

#deja-vu #faith #prophecy #teen #thirteen

Oracular ambiguity or statical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#foretellers #prophecies #faith

Gambling is an act of faith of gamblers. Prophecy is an act of faith of the saints. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gambling #prophecy #faith

Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#prophets #quackery #faith

I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#armed services #asking #because #country #died

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #god #outrage #poor #prophets

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#prophet #red #family

It’s not that Jesus is the copy of Israel coming out of Egypt, but that Israel coming out of Egypt was the copy—in advance—of Jesus. ↗

— Russell Moore

#family