Ronald Reagan Quotes

Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

I was a convert to Catholicism, and converts are much more devout.

He (God) never comes to those who do not wait.

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

I attribute my talent and my success to God, but I believe that the only way you can manifest what He has ordained for you is by being close to Him and by making it happen. But we have to stay close to Him in order to be an image of Him.

I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.

...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

We must not confide in the armour of God, but in the God of this armour, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.

Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

Jesus and spirituality can easily become therapies that merely help us cope with life. They can serve us if we chose Him over other service providers. We even talk about "making Jesus my personal Lord and Savior," as if we could make Him anything!

Such self-denial 'may appear demanding,' but it will allow you, so to speak, to be and to breathe within the heart of the church.

More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks.