Walter Scott Quotes

May God help Russia.

God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.

Men, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.

A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had 'our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.' We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.

I've obviously had some bad events where I thought God could help a little bit more.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but because I was enabled by His grace to trust Him He has always appeared for my help. I delight in speaking well of His name.

God helps everyone with what is his own.

Divine grace was never slow.

When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.

The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men.

If I had used the term "guardian angels" or spoke of our "guides," a lot fewer eyebrows would raise. So it's just a matter of terminology here. The main idea is that we are always recipients of God's help, whether it is through other of God's beloved creatures, or directly from the Divine Itself.

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

God will meet us and help us.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.