#ray

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. ↗

— Aesop

#heard #our #pray #prayers #strive

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#ask #consolation #find #i #me

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. ↗

— Edward Albert

#career #countries #definitive #enough #film

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#brave #courage #fortitude #god #grace

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ↗

— Fred Allen

#crop #days #each #failure #first

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. ↗

— James Allen

#bless #bring #deeds #farmer #forth

Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills. ↗

— Ray Simpson

#christianity #contemplation #contemplative-prayer #god #nature

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#always #betrayal #espionage #finding #give

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell. ↗

— Ruta Sepetys

#quotes #ruta-sepetys #soviet-occupation #stalin #world-war-ii

If the Net becomes the center of the universe, which is what seems to be happening, then the dizzying array of machines that will be plugged into it will virtually guarantee that the specifics of which chip and which operating system you've got will be irrelevant. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#becomes #center #chip #dizzying #got