Ricky Skaggs Quotes

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

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

Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.

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.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

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.

I meditate a lot and pray for guidance. If, in a moment of self-contemplation or meditation, I were to feel very strongly that I shouldn't be an entertainer anymore, that I should be doing something else, I would stop immediately.

I feel like God is just telling me what I need to do, and He's showing me the light.

I follow my gut and the prompting of my spirit in all things, small and big.

Go where your best prayers take you.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

My relationship with God has gotten so much stronger. He's always had his hand on me. He always guided me. I didn't always go where he wanted me to go. But He always had me. Now that I'm actually listening and being obedient, life is so much better.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.