Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"
Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers.
If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.
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.'
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
Praying in faith is not an inner conviction that God will act according to our desires if only we believe hard enough. It involves believing that God will always respond to our prayers in accord with His nature, His purposes, and His promises.
'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God
Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.
Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him; and hence failure arises.
Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
