I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.
It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
Every day I have spent in Uganda has been beautifully overwhelming; everywhere I have looked, raw, filthy, human need and brokenness have been on display, begging for someone to meet them, fix them. And even though I realize I cannot always mend or meet, I can enter in. I can enter into someone's pain and sit with them and know. This is Jesus. Not that He apologizes for the hard and the hurt, but that he enters in, He comes with us to the hard places. And so I continue to enter.
I don't like begging money from producers.
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
The men gasped at Nicholas. "That's the most I've heard him say in three years. " Sam said. He turned to the others. "You ever hear him talk that much?" "I wasn't sure he could talk," Tucker Addison replied straight-faced. "He talks," Dahlia said defensively. "Begging your pardon, ma'am, but he's just plain anti-social," Sam pointed out, "Always had been, always will be.
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we. . . yes, I assure you. . . we should be begging to be under control again at once.
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.