John Bevere Quotes

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

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.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.

We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.

God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic.

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.

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

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.

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

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability.

I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

God can show you just what you need to give, even if you don't know exactly why you're giving it. That's why we should always seek God and prepare to give Him our very best.

Faith is a continuation of reason.

The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.