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

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

  Thora Birch

  Thinking, Support, Decision

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspiring, Fun, Tools

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Change, Humor

  Song: Redneck Stomp

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• We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

  Dora Russell

  Wisdom, Guidance

  "Tamarisk Tree Volume 3: Challenge to the Cold War". Book by Dora Russell , ch. 14, 1985.

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• Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

  Helen Rowland

  Food, Men, Apples

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.72, Lulu.com

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• The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.

  Sid Meier

  Fun, Powerful, Player

  Interview with Kristan Reed, www.eurogamer.net. December 6, 2004.

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• I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Pride, Singing, Mystery

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• However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

  Norman MacCaig

  Bird, Literature, Helping

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• There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

  Jo Bonner

  Hands, Storm, Criticism

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• In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Past, Giving

  "The Problem of Pain". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1940.

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• By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

  Chris Chocola

  Care, Return, Patient

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• A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

  George Will

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

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• My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

  Channing Tatum

  Sports, School, Parent

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• I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows.

  Guy Laliberte

  Believe, Creativity, Ideas

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