Catherine Booth Quotes

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

When life feels like a yoyo, no matter the ups or the downs know that you'll always end up in the hands of Almighty God.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

God clarifies in the midst of obedience, not beforehand.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

If I know my own heart, I do now feel the necessity of resigning myself into the hands of my God, to mould and guide me at His will; tho I dare not say that I am, at present, willing to do it.

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

When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

We should be recklessly abandoned to Jesus, and just turn it over to Him. Through the support I think the sacrifices will be made and we'll all be cool with it.

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Certainly there is no contending against the will of God, but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining it, and applying it, to particular cases.

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

I place my life in the hands of God each day. And I trust that He knows what He's doing, even when I do not.

The more you try to grip control of your life the more God's gonna untangle that from you. He's going to make things go where you have to rely on Him.

Everything I do in life I put in the hands of God, my creator.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.