Offering Quotes - Page 13

• ...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

  H. G. Wells

  Food, Biscuits, Lisp

  H. G. Wells (2016). “Tono-Bungay”, p.250, H. G. Wells

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• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  True Friend, Support, Comfort

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1996). “Life's Little Treasure Book on Friendship”, Rutledge Hill Press

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• The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

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• The "door of faith" (Acts 14:27) is always open for us, ushering us into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Oxygen, Empires, Forests

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• To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Volunteer, Great Love

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.

  H. L. Mencken

  Death, Animal, People

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.86, Knopf

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• I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Birthday, Blessing, Finals

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• All service should be regarded as an offering to God, and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from God. When service is done in this spirit, it will lead to self- realization.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Opportunity, Self, Done

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• There prevails still a subtle form of legalism which would rob the Saviour of his crown of glory, earned by the cross, and would make of him a second Moses, offering us the stones of the law instead of the life-bread of the gospel.

  Geerhardus Vos

  Law, Crowns, Stones

  Geerhardus Vos (2015). “Grace and Glory”, p.63, Booklassic

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• You can open to God through sex. By learning to open your heart and body while embracing and trusting all energies from rough ravishment to sublime gentleness, you can open to be lived by the mystery that lives the entire universe. You can open to be lived by love with no limits, so you are alive as love, offering the deepest gifts of your heart spontaneously and without hesitation, in every moment, at work, with your family and friends, as well as in bed with your lover.

  David Deida

  Sex, Heart, Sublime

  "David Deida On Exploring Spirituality Through Sex". bodhitree.com.

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• I discovered a version of the sinner's prayer that increased my faith far more than the one that I had said years earlier...In this version, there were no formulas, no set phrases that promised us safe passage across the abyss. There was only our tattered trust that the Spirit who had given us life would not leave us in the wilderness without offering us life again.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Prayer, Years, Phrases

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• Most of the sacrifices involved tearing out the heart, offering it to the sun and, with some blood, also to the idols

  Michael Harner

  Heart, Sacrifice, Blood

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• But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

  Paul Lester Wiener

  Work, Creating, Giving

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• One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Religious, Buddhist

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• One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Thinking, Suffering

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• There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Spiritual, Godly, Opportunity

  Lee L. Jampolsky (2011). “Walking Through Walls: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World”, p.130, Celestial Arts

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• These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple geometric shapes-discs, ovals, spheres, cylinders-and surfaces that looked like metal. Such shapes are not only nonexistent among known aircraft, but contrary to all known theories of flight, in most cases offering control and performance disadvantages rather than advantages.

  Don Berliner

  Simple, Geometric Shapes, Abnormal

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• The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

  Claudia Rankine

  Firsts, Facts, Privilege

  Claudia Rankine (2004). “Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric”, Graywolf Press

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• The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

  Lee Bolman

  Leadership, Essence, Giving

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• The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Luxury, Risk

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• You are the owner of all that you perceive. But you can't perceive apart from your vibration. Feel your way, little-by-little, into a greater sense of abundance by looking for the treasures that the Universe is offering you on a day-to-day basis.

  Esther Hicks

  Perception, Vibrations, Treasure

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• In this silence of the white Host, carried in the Monstrance, are all His words; there is His whole life given in offering to the Father for each of us; there is also the glory of the glorified body, which started with the Resurrection, and still continues in Heavenly union.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, White, Silence

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• The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Hero, Men, Land

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Commitment, Blessing

  "Ye Must Be Born Again". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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