Prayer is converse with
Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners. Ephrem the Syrian
Converses
There is this value
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us. Egerton Brydges
Bad roads and indifferent
Bad roads and indifferent inns, … the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind – innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers. Edward Gibbon
While we converse with
While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark. Edmund Waller
We can only converse
We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English. Ed Miliband
My friend and I
My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme’s \”More Than Words\” at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent. Ed Helms
When marrying, ask yourself
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory. Friedrich Nietzsche
Think of these pages
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse. Frederick Buechner
In an economy, an
In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause – it is seen. The others unfold in succession – they are not seen. Now … Read more
However greatly we distrust
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else. Francois de La Rochefoucauld