Asking God Quotes

• It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

  Stormie Omartian

  Important, Want, Asking

  FaceBook post by Stormie Omartian from Feb 23, 2014

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Prayer, Powerful

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Might, Helping

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• Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

  Oswald Chambers

  Doe, Asking, Utmost For His Highest

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.164, Discovery House

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• One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?

  Steven Furtick

  Focus, Enemy, Wish

  Steven Furtick (2012). “Greater: Dream bigger. Start smaller. Ignite God's Vision for Your Life”, p.84, Multnomah

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• True prayer is asking God what He wants.

  William Barclay

  Prayer, Asking, Want

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• The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Struggle, Past

  Tony Evans (2012). “How Should Christians Vote?”, p.24, Moody Publishers

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• Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

  Dennis Prager

  Prayer, Asking, Helping

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• God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me."

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Pain, Funny Life

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• Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Prayer, Godly, Blessing

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• One of the best aids to freedom is asking God for a lot of help-and asking often.

  Joyce Meyer

  Asking, Helping, Aids

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• For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Mean, Son

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• Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.

  Anne Lamott

  Jobs, Prayer, Heart

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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  Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.

  Bono

  God, Blessed, Asking

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• Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Waste, Asking, Wasting Time

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.22, Discovery House

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• Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

  T. B. Joshua

  Answers, Asking, Amount

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• Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service of prayer is not a mere rite, a ceremony through which we go, a sort of performance. Prayer is going to God for something needed and desired. Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him ... Asking is man's part. Giving is God's part. The praying belongs to us. The answer belongs to God.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Prayer, Godly, Blessing

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• Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, People, Giving

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• True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Prayer, Soul, Asking

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “The Spiritual Writings of Mary Baker Eddy”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Men, Car

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.54, HarperCollins UK

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• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  Arthur Ashe

  Children, Pain, Play

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• Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.

  Susan Meissner

  Children, Sky, Knowing

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• He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

  Theodore Parker

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179

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• Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wish, Asking, Making Changes

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 29, 2015

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