Lou Holtz Quotes

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

I believe, whatever God does, he does it for the good. I always try to look at life like that.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

You have faith in God, and know he has a plan for me.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.