Seeking Divine Intervention Quotes

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

There is nothing like despair to make one throw oneself upon the gods.

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

The time when there is nothing at all in your soul except a cry for help may be just that time when God can't give it: you are like the drowning man who can't be helped because he clutches and grabs. Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

I don't think I've ever actually prayed to win an event.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

Human beings do not readily admit desperation. When they do, the kingdom of heaven draws near

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.