Quietly...softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love.
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CHARLES HOLLIDAY One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I For to do things with care is the closest thing to love that I know
the cape of grace falling s...
JANE SIBERRY Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you...
JOHN GREEN God desires all believers to be so familiar with His love that our approach toward Him is bold.
ANDREW WOMMACK I love you present tense.
JOHN GREEN Our love is like the misty rain that falls softly, but floods the river...
AFRICAN PROVERB Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know yo...
JOHN GREEN Be not discourage when others are unable to see the heights of your vision, God will placed you on H...
CARL HENEGAN There's a lot riding on our shoulders,
LUKE TAYLOR God gave burdens, also shoulders.
YIDDISH PROVERB God gave burdens, also shoulders
YIDDISH PROVERB Are we in love with God or just His stuff?
FRANCIS CHAN He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had al...
MICHELLE MCKINNEY HAMMOND Sometimes love isn't fireworks, sometimes love just comes softly.
JANETTE OKE We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
PLACIDO DOMINGO God sends burdens, and shoulders, too
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER We played a little tense. But we settled down, thank God.
JAIME BURGOS How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t...
R.C. SPROUL The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning unt...
AMINATTA FORNA When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO We came in with a chip on our shoulders, but we did what we needed to do.
CHAKHIA COLE Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it a...
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our perfo...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Our employment future rests on the shoulders of the small employer, and we should be investing with ...
JOHN DELANEY We just kind of connected better than the rest. He jumps up and puts his front legs on my shoulders ...
DANI ANDERSON Break up with him,” he said softly, “or I’ll put his head through a window.
LAUREN GILLEY I saw the fire in his eyes at halftime. He took the team on his shoulders.
ROB PAVINELLI God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tens...
KEVIN SYSTROM They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers, ... On...
KATHLEEN BLANCO They pulled the Jefferson Parish phone numbers along with the Jefferson Davis Parish numbers. Once t...
DENISE BOTTCHER No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach
WOODROW T. WILSON As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is s...
W. SCOTT LINEBERRY I always knew I would fall in love with you," he said softly, "but you were never supposed to love m...
PRISCILLA GLENN Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
RAINER MARIA RILKE We've kind of been on his shoulders a good portion of this year.
MIKE HOLMGREN Just as God's love to us believers, his children, is unalterably the same, whatever may be the m...
GEORGE MULLER There were 35 hunters in there on that hunt, and only Doug and one other hunter got a bird. I had to...
MARK GORE I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE Don't Go With The Flow. The Powers That Be Turn The Taps
DEAN CAVANAGH God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor...
BILLY GRAHAM I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin f...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Forget about the money for a moment. Lose yourself in the wilderness, listen to the music of the sof...
KIRAN BISHT His preaching is birthed out of love for people, and his love for God surpasses his love for people.
MARCUS JOHNSON He's a magician on the field. He's the heart and soul of our team. He goes out there and puts it all...
WALI LUNDY It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pur...
TOM STOPPARD His locked on hers, steady and intense. 'That was your last first kiss, Josephine Duprey,' he said s...
DENISE HUNTER Over reliance on past glory is the past tense of success and the present tense of failure
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) His love at once and dread instruct our thought;
As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
EDMUND WALLER Thank God for His great love.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Love is a Person Who wants to be known.
CATHERINE TOON Until a man love God, can he love his neighbour.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
And fell adown his shoulders with losse care.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength,"...
MILAN KUNDERA God expressed His love to us by His abundant giving
SUNDAY ADELAJA The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words...
JAMES HASTINGS RASHDALL God is love and the source of all life. Love is of God and every living creature on this earth, incl...
Q.M. HERRERA He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.
SUZY KASSEM If our foundation is on God,then our burden becomes His and we sail through smoothly.
LATIKA TEOTIA A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirri...
PETER MARSHALL No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
T.D. JAKES We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders sq...
BARBARA MIKULSKI The newly-minted captain admits the irony between the gold on his shoulders and the lack of gold in ...
PATRICK O'BRIAN It certainly taps into their imaginations. And they love being able to go home and tell their parent...
BETTY HARRISON God is love, but Satan does that thing you like with his tongue.
--BUMPER STICKER
DARYNDA JONES At that moment, Seb appeared, his broad shoulders pushed back as he swaggered towards them with a sm...
RACHAEL JOHNS ... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperie...
JULIAN OF NORWICH I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dea...
DAWN POWELL His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
EDMUND WALLER It was tense, real tense.
TEVESTER ANDERSON I love the Pope, I love seeing him in his Pope-Mobile, his three feet of bullet proof plexi-glass. T...
BILL HICKS As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibili...
A J TOYNBEE In the beginning was love, and love was with God, and love was God.
KAMAND KOJOURI To love God is to keep his commandment.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL [Gov. Dalton] lived at Jefferson City, ... But his heart was in Southeast Missouri and his home was ...
DONALD PARKER The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our...
JEREMY NORTHAM The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-creatures. A ...
S. M. M'CORKLE Inside our cozy, private room, I reached up and tugged on his silk necktie, undoing the knot. “You...
BECCA FITZPATRICK I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His lov...
JAMES E. FAUST Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!
OSCAR WILDE ON HIS DEATHBED The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his...
CHINUA ACHEBE He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow
ITALIAN PROVERB Train our children to love God.
DANIEL H. HILL [S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with bloo...
MAX BARRY The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in s...
VIOLA SHIPMAN If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON What brings a real and lasting joy is our relationships with God, and our love for His other childre...
LINDSEY STIRLING Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.
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STEVEN CHOPADE I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then mo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficult...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish...
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...
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