Brantley Gilbert Quotes

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.