I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
I testify of the renewing power of God's love and the miracle of His grace. His concern is for the faith at which you finally arrive, not the hour of the day in which you got there.
Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.
'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.
It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
We stay this way until twilight colours the window and the hour calls me home
I'd like to shower and change clothes," she said. "Would you mind waiting for me a half hour?" The question seemed to amuse him. "Not at all," he said with exaggerated formality. "Please take all the time you need. " Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.
Every hour you sit at work increases your mortality 11 percent. Think about that.
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
I'm going to wait til the midnight hour, that's when my love begins to shine.
Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.
When you’ve lost all your play, guess what love becomes. Work. Work that gets harder every hour.
You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)
One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Research now seems to indicate that one hour of inner action is worth seven hours of out-in-the-worl d action. Think about that. You're working too hard.
Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day. . . between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they're always positive.
I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.