Beyonce Knowles Quotes

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

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.

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

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

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.

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

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

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

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

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.

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

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?

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

There's an old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking.

When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.