John Calvin Quotes

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

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.

Pray in faith.

Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

Somehow, it always worked. Kneeling at the side of my bed and talking to the Lord made everything okay.

The power of prayer and faith in God is something that has guided so many of us in good times and bad.

Through prayers I get the strength to face all the difficulties.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

God cares about everything that concerns you, so feel free to talk to Him about anything.

We simply can't trust God's power fully until we experience it in the midst of our crisis.

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.

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.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."