Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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.
Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.
I've obviously had some bad events where I thought God could help a little bit more.
What we want with all our hearts will determine in large degree whether we can claim our right to the companionship of the Holy Ghost, without which there can be no spiritual nourishing.
Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.
Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.
