Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

This is not a fix; it's a prayer.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.

This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

When you're on a raft, you pray like in a foxhole.

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

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.

God Help America!