George Whitefield 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.

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

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

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

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do.

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 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.

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

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

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

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

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

We got to pray just to make it today.

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

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

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

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

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.

Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare.