Seeking Direction Quotes

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

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.

If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this lost, even in Wales.

I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

It is my earnest desire to know the will of Providence in this matter. And if I can learn what is I will do it.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

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

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

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

In this Situation of this Assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find Political Truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not, hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our Understandings?

Where it all ends I can't fathom, my friends. If I knew, I might toss out my anchor.

There were questions I didn't have the answers to, and I was trying to figure it out. I remember staying up until 4 A.M. reading the Bible and praying.

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

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 like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.

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.

I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

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

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.