Elizabeth Fry Quotes

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

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

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

In this Situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find Political Truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not, hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our Understandings?

God puts us in places. It's for you to make the decision whether you go left or right.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.

If you are not guided by God, you will be guided by something or someone else.

In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

If you do not have an absolutely clear vision of something, where you can follow the light to the end of the tunnel, then it doesn't matter whether you're bold or cowardly, or whether you're stupid or intelligent. Doesn't get you anywhere.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

Take ye counsel together in all matters, inasmuch as consultation is the lamp of guidance which leadeth the way, and is the bestower of understanding.

I could only lead if I could see the way to go, otherwise it would be a case of the blind leading the blind.

If we listen to the voices of the world, we will be misled. But if we listen to the voice of the Lord through His living prophet and follow his counsel, we will never go astray

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

I like to know how I'm supposed to feel about things. Just a little clue or hint.

You have to call on the Lord to find out where he wants you, what he wants from you.

'I have always asked God to guide me in each of my tasks.

When you live your life knowing the mission and calling and voice of God in your soul and you know where that compass is driving you forward, you will become a rare commodity in a world searching for direction.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.