Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.
I was captured by the songs as much as the singer. They grabbed my heart. The reality of Country Music moved me. Even when I was a kid, I liked the sad songs. . . songs that talked about true life. I recognized this music as a simple plea. It beckoned me.
My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men. . . but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.
Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.
He must never forget Charlie's plea: Tell me where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.
We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
We can all be angels to one another. We can choose to obey the still small stirring within, the little whisper that says, Go. Ask. Reach out. Be an answer to someone's plea. You have a part to play. Have faith.
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.
The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.
I love my son. I love my kids, my family, Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions. .
