Importunate – Quotes

Friends love misery, in

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. Erica Jong

Nothing is enough for

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little. Epicurus

When life is too

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. Eleanor Roosevelt

Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God’s people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ. Edward McKendree Bounds

We can do nothing

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances. Edward McKendree Bounds

Importunate praying is the

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God. Edward McKendree Bounds

We can do nothing

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ Edward McKendree Bounds

Because half a dozen

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, … Read more

Many a man fails

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good. Friedrich Nietzsche

So long as you

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh. Freeman Dyson