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Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality. -- Charles Grandison Finney
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. -- John Philip Sousa
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. -- Kerry Thornley
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination. -- Christopher Columbus
It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent. -- Dave Barry
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. -- Bill Vaughan
Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned. -- Arthur Wallis
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. -- Plutarch
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. -- Colin Powell
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. -- H. L. Mencken
The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival. -- David Shibley
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing. -- Emma Bonino
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude -- Colin Powell
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing. -- Martin Luther
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. -- George Orwell
All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet. -- Samuel Logan Brengle
Probably the greatest tragedy of the church throughout its long and checkered history has been its constant tendency to conform to the prevailing culture instead of developing a Christian counter-culture . -- John Stott
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. -- Oswald Chambers
Therefore the victories of good warriors are not noted for cleverness or bravery. Therefore their victories in battle are not flukes. Their victories are not flukes because they position themselves where they will surely win, prevailing over those wh. -- Sun Tzu
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them. -- John Stuart Mill
A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve. -- Nelson Mandela
Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. -- Pope Francis
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realization that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously. -- Gerald Massey
The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. -- W. Edwards Deming
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. -- Jean Toomer
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing. -- Pope Francis
My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down. -- Donny Osmond
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. -- Barry Commoner
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason. -- Danny DeVito
The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. -- James Buchan
Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko. -- Alan Moore
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel or kind, and they act on the basis of that - often in the face of the prevailing limits of behaviour. -- Morris Gleitzman
Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. -- Albion W. Small
Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere. -- Maurice Saatchi
Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. -- Jeremy Paxton
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway. -- W. Edwards Deming
Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe. -- Bob Beauprez
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way. -- Megan Abbott
When I was a teenager, science meshed with my developing ideals - such as the challenge to authority that was central to punk rock. In science, anyone from any walk of life could make a discovery that would overturn prevailing hypotheses. And that was a cause for celebration among scientists. -- Greg Graffin
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. -- Myles Munroe
No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology. -- Ludwig von Mises
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. -- David Brooks
There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer. -- Oswald J. Smith
Prayer is the key to unlocking God's prevailing power in your life. -- David Jeremiah
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. -- Stendhal
The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next. -- Burton J. Hendrick
Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men. -- Samuel Rogers
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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them. -- Leroy Hood
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? -- Kenichi Ohmae
The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency. -- Gary Cohn
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. -- George Gilder
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. -- Washington Gladden
Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood. -- Philippe Claudel
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. -- Eric Hoffer
I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable. -- Clarence Thomas
We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day. -- Bill Bright
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. -- W. Edwards Deming
When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned. -- Lord Chesterfield
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. -- Randy Schekman
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong. -- George Soros
Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. -- Jeffrey Tucker
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. -- Ronald Knox
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. -- Grace Paley
In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war.Whichever wins, future will believe it as the prevailing truth. -- Toba Beta
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith. -- Josh McDowell
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. -- Judith Sargent Murray
When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds. -- William Lyon Mackenzie King
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions. -- Richard Posner
Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze. -- George Vancouver
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. -- Daniel Barenboim
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. -- Colin Powell
Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman. -- Warren Farrell
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and the prevailing state of scientific thought. -- Ludwig von Mises
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. -- Brian Ferneyhough
Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society. -- Earl Warren
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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. -- Eric Temple Bell
The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters. -- Seth Klarman
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. -- Lord Chesterfield
Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived. -- Max Horkheimer
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions. -- Saul
Everything is governed by one law. A human being is a microcosmos, i.e. the laws prevailing in the cosmos also operate in the minutest space of the human being. -- Viktor Schauberger
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. -- Edmund Burke
I know I can serve Hawaii and our country well in the U.S. Senate, know we can mount a solid statewide campaign, know we have a good chance of prevailing. -- Ed Case
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called "public" or "popular" opinion. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The logic of collective security is flawless, provided it can be made to work under the conditions prevailing on the international scene... The odds, however, are strongly against such a possibility. -- Elliott Abrams
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible. -- Martin Jacques
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted. -- Claude Bernard
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage. -- Neal Boortz
[The] prevailing reason at this time is, that the Act of Parliament is against the Magna Charta, and the natural rights of Englishmen, and therefore, according to Lord Coke, null and void. -- Thomas Hutchinson
The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread. -- Adam Parfrey
The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well. -- James Robison
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden. -- Martin Heidegger
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. -- John Ruskin
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious minorities to conform to the prevailing officially approved religion is plain. -- Hugo Black
If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. -- George Orwell
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason... -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes. -- Marisa Silver
Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election. -- Narendra Modi
All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance - unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment]. -- William J. Brennan
It's as if tendencies that seem most deeply rooted in our minds, most private and singular, have come in as spores on the prevailing wind, looking for any likely place to land, any welcome. -- Alice Munro
When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and eating whole grains will make you healthy is not only wrong, it's destructive. -- William Davis
the prudent business mind must not only think of competing with the prevailing giants in the market but must also not be oblivious of the latent deft of the masses who are yet to dare -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Like the priestly cult of the Middle Ages, the modern priestly cult of "scientific" psychotherapists exist overwhelmingly to stultify or blunt a too-acute insight into the powers benumbed in our personalities by our prevailing culture. -- Kenny Smith

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