The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
Much as I love the northeast, I didn't want to spend my life there. I wanted to experiment. Savour everything you can while you're here! Touring, seeing the world. . . That in itself gives you a different perspective.
Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.
Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.
Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?
What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.
Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.
A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess.
Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. . . It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.
True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.
Knowing what to expect next gives children a sense of security.
Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.
The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.
Have you known what it is to give your meal to another and to go without yourself? It gives a happiness that no dinner eaten by yourself can give. Have you known what it is to give your coat to another and do without it yourself? It gives a joy that the satisfaction of your own wants cannot give you.
Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.