Norman Mailer Quotes

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.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

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.

Man thinks, God directs.

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.

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

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

God is not a vending machine where if you put in enough prayer quarters we get a Reese's Pieces bag that pops out.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

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

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

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

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

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.

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.

If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.