Edward Everett Hale Quotes

It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

I listen and talk to God daily.

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.

Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

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 have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

Make the study of the Torah your chief occupation; speak little, but accomplish much.

Though it seems curious, I do not remember ever asking for anything but what I got it. And I always received it as an answer to my prayers.

'A Course in Miracles' has been one of my great teachers. I still study 'The Course' daily. It's like a gift that keeps on giving.

Having grown up Catholic, my prayers were scripted - memorized and deployed in church and before bed. As a young adult, I veered off script and talked to God more plainly. And by 'talked to,' I mean that I basically asked for things to turn out the way I wanted them to.

I pray for John McArthur. I pray for, that God would tender his heart. I pray that he would have eyes of understanding.

I did study religion at Northwestern, and it was a very interesting time for me because I think it was the beginning of my personal journey in this understanding of the purpose that religion serves in our culture and in our individual lives. It serves to ground us and be our moral compass.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.