Top 21 Petitioning Quotes
#1. Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.
Jacob M. Appel
#2. The spirit of community will be revived as we succeed in devising ways to reinvolve people in solving the perplexing problems they see about them, not just in talking about them, and certainly not in petitioning government to solve them.
Richard Cornuelle
#3. the way in which He worked miracles, namely because He worked miracles . . . of His own power, and not by praying (petitioning), as others do. .
Peter Kreeft
#4. It is not my business to be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This
Henry David Thoreau
#5. The waiting area was jammed with the sort of egalitarian cross-section only genuine misery can provide: Hispanics and blacks and Russians and various indeterminate, red-eyed teenage girls with children you prayed were siblings; junkie veterans petitioning for painkillers they wouldn't get;
Jonathan Lethem
#6. The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.
Ludwig Von Mises
#7. Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
Gary Rohrmayer
#8. To do anything in the Lord's name means to do it for his purposes. When we pray in Jesus' name, we are petitioning God to bring glory to Jesus and we are asking for his will to be done in everything so that he will be honored above all.
Bryan Chapell
#9. The truth is there's not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there's too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there's a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can't find answers is because the search party didn't invite us.
Shane Koyczan
#11. I have an inability to consider a thing without imagining the story behind it as a needful force, a great petitioning weight.
Leah Hager Cohen
#12. Prayer should not be so much about petitioning God as it should be about promoting our own spiritual growth.
Andrew Wommack
#13. {10:2} So I am petitioning you, lest I be bold, when present, with that bold confidence that I am considered to have by certain ones who judge us as if we were walking according to the flesh. {10:3} For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
The Biblescript
#14. At the end of this whole Apocalypse thing, I was petitioning to have action figures made of them.
Rachel Higginson
#15. Emma thought of Julian, sitting here, in this office. Year after year, from the time he was twelve and all scraped elbows and torn jeans. He would sit patiently with pen and ink, writing his letter to the Clave, petitioning them to let his sister Helen come home from Wrangel Island.
Cassandra Clare
#16. I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance ... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.
Toby Young
#17. While to a certain extent Milton is right-the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hall and so forth-it is nonetheless clear that Plano was modeled less on Paradise than that other, more dolorous city.
Donna Tartt
#18. It was a soft breathless June morning, with a promise of sultriness later ...
John Buchan
#19. He would enjoy exploring each and every inked line with his tongue. Yeah, Mr. Ball Cap would do just fine.
Kindle Alexander
#20. Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.
Martin Luther
