Norman Mailer Quotes

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

God won't answer 100% of the prayers we don't pray.

I am an agnostic as to the question of God.

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.