David A. Bednar Quotes

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

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

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

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'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science that gives us any rest.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.