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Workings Quotes (page 325)

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray. Corrie Ten Boom
I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment. Barbara Kingsolver
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs
Anthony Powell quote: "Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and..."
Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. Anthony Powell
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.[Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] Cormac McCarthy
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination. Jonathan Franzen
Martin Amis quote: "And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making..."
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit. Martin Amis
Nora Roberts quote: "know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you..."
know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it. Nora Roberts
Beatrix Potter quote: "Believe there is a great power silently working all things for..."
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. Beatrix Potter
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Then we'll find a way to work through all this together..."
Then we'll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Nicholas Sparks
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in... Elie Wiesel
Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength. Leo Tolstoy
Charlotte Smith quote: "Ah! thus man spoils Heaven's glorious works with blood!"
Ah! thus man spoils Heaven's glorious works with blood! Charlotte Smith
The lucky ones are the people like your husband there. The ones who find work that means something to them. That they can really put their heart into, however foolish it might look to other people. Michael Chabon
Five days a week, she came into my room at four in the morning, force-fed me breakfast, and proceeded to teach me my English lessons for three hours before I left for school and she went to work. Barack Obama

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