Top 1200 Asking God Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

I'm asking questions that most people are asking, but just putting a melody or a song to it.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

We need to be asking for the vote in the most powerful way possible, which is to have people asking for the vote who are comfortable and look like and sound like the people that we're asking for the vote from.

I think we should stop asking people in their 20s what they 'want to do' and start asking them what they don't want to do. Instead of asking students to 'declare their major' we should ask students to 'list what they will do anything to avoid.' It just makes a lot more sense.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

Have you been asking God what He is going to do? He will never tell you. God does not tell you what He is going to do; He reveals to you Who He is.

Asking Senator Fulbright's advice on foreign policy is like asking the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you."

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.

What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.

The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking: As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

The question is absurd: when you ask, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then does He allow suffering?', what you are really asking is, 'If God is both all good and all powerful, why then can He not make me (the questioner) - who is just as much a part of a universe in which there is suffering as is any other part - be at the same time the exact same questioner, but one who is now part and parcel of a universe in which there is no suffering?' Which, reduced down, is the same thing as asking, 'Why can there not be, at the same time, X and the preclusion of X?'

What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.

Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me."

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time.

As a non believer I don't get the idea of asking god for things via prayer.

Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

God loves to glorify himself by suspending his gifts and blessings on our asking him for them. We should never presume to receive from God apart from prayer what he's clearly told us in Scripture will be ours only through prayer.

I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.

Asking Wall Street to provide financial education is the same as asking a fox to raise your chickens.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.

Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

I'm just a simple man standing alone with my old brushes, asking God for inspiration.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

Life, nature and God always answer, 'Yes,' to you. What are you asking for?

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

I tell people that If one woman can get prayer taken out of the school, it may very well be that God Is asking another woman to get prayer back into the schools. I am confident that's what God wants us to do.

Many of the questions we ask God can't be answered directly, not because God doesn't know the answers but because our questions don't make sense. As C.S. Lewis once pointed out, many of our questions are, from God's point of view, rather like someone asking, "Is yellow square or round?" or "How many hours are there is a mile?

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.

Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

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

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

There's nothing wrong in going and asking people for work because that's what we do. We are asking, not begging for money. We, as actors, are selling and presenting ourselves.

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, "Do it again"; and every evening to the moon and the stars, "Do it again"; and every springtime to the daisies, "Do it again"; and every time a child is born into the world asking for curtain call, that the heart of the God might once more ring out in the heart of the babe.

'Preacher' - what it's saying is not just blasphemy and good, fun violence. It's asking, 'Where is God?' If he is there, what's he doing?