John Chrysostom Quotes

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

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

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

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

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.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

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

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

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

It is always a dangerous symptom when men pray to know what is their duty.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overpowering conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day

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

I always ask God if it is his will, and if so, then let it be. Whatever comes out of it I will accept it. That's the message I got and that's why I'm here at Hull.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

I don't have the wherewithal to judge God's will. I don't have the wherewithal to determine whether your viewpoints are right or wrong.