Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are
I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life. . . . I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.
The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.
I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.