Slessor Quotes

#1. The secret of all failure is disobedience.

Mary Slessor

#2. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#3. Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way

Mary Slessor

#4. Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee. Lead the way and I will follow.

Mary Slessor

#5. If people really want to find you, they find you.

Bill Murray

#6. Blessed the man and woman who is able to serve cheerfully in the second rank - a big test.

Mary Slessor

#7. It might not feel like it," the cop says, "but, Cooper, today is your lucky day.

David Levithan

#8. Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

Mary Slessor

#9. Why should I fear? I am on a Royal Mission. I am in the service of the King of kings.

Mary Slessor

#10. Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

Mary Slessor

#11. Some people go, some people stay. I'm staying.

S.E. Hinton

#12. Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

Mary Slessor

#13. No matter what life has dealt you, your yesterday does not need to define your today.

Mary A. Perez

#14. If you play with temptation do not expect God will deliver you

Mary Slessor

#15. Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

John Yudkin

#16. I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

Paul Ince

#17. Writing poetry is a pleasure, ... a pleasure out of hell

Kenneth Slessor

#18. I enjoy doing both of them very much, concert work particularly, and the division varies from season to season.

Sarah Caldwell

#19. When you think of the woman's power, you forget the power of the woman's God. I shall go on.

Mary Slessor

#20. I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Brad Carson

#21. My energies have been drained.
Masturbating too much will do that.

Michelle M. Pillow

#22. The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Paul Gascoigne

#23. What would I do with starry crowns except to cast them at His feet?

Mary Slessor

#24. Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no white man has gone. They need Jesus, too. Help me reach them!

Mary Slessor

#25. And then, one morning, you're startled to discover that you no longer feel this terrible burden. What a surprise to notice that the angst has disappeared. Why on that particular day? Why not later, or sooner? It's the totalitarian decision of our body.

David Foenkinos

#26. It were worthwhile to die, if thereby a soul could be born again.

Mary Slessor

#27. I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

Wallace Shawn