Ask God First Quotes

#1. God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.

Andrew Murray

#2. During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.

James Monroe

#3. When people ask me how they can know Gods plan for their lives, I tell them the best first step is to know God.

Pete Wilson

#4. The first thing I learned from Judy Blume was that God is the wrong one to ask for bigger breasts. (Stephanie Lessing)

Jennifer O'Connell

#5. When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

Werner Heisenberg

#6. St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?

Alphonsus Liguori

#7. The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak ... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.

Hermann Hesse

#9. God, what a depressing day that was and what an irony that Britain's first female prime minister had to be Margaret Thatcher. She was the woman who asked, 'What has feminism ever done for me?' Well, dear, if you need to ask that question then you're obviously not very bright

Jo Brand

#10. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.

Thornton Wilder

#11. Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.

Janet Morris

#12. Humans assign gender to God, so the first question to ask ourselves is who decided God was male? The second question is why?

Peter Wilkes

#13. It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."

John Ortberg

#14. Of course I fall. Yet, I incessantly blame my falls on circumstance so that I can deny my own inadequacy and therefore remain my own god. And so, I am left to ask which will come first, the fall that kills me or the surrender that saves me?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. God will never ask you for something without first depositing it within you. If you will dare to take a step of faith, you will discover gifts inside that you never before realized were there.

Joel Osteen

#16. Your heart is everything. Why else would God ask for it first? I mean, why not ask for your mind? Your soul? Instead, God asks for our hearts.

Rachel Van Dyken

#17. I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

Minnie Driver

#18. If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine

#19. First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.

John Calvin

#20. I ask God in spirit and in truth 'what are we?'. It's the questions first.

Robert Hood

#21. The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.

Philip Neri

#22. If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

Alexander Carson

#23. A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'

Aaron Arrowsmith

#24. If you want to find what God put you here to do, ask yourself three questions. First question: What comes easy to you but harder to other people? The second question is: What would you do for years and never have to get paid for it? Third, ask yourself: How can you be of service?

Farrah Gray

#25. You grow up. You move on. You find someone new. And for God's sake, you don't ask the first woman who lets you fuck her to marry you.

Tiffany Reisz

#26. I suppose we could ask the same question of Jesus. God sent Him to be the Messiah of Israel and King of Israel; why did He fail the first time around and get crucified?

Pat Robertson

#27. When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'

Joyce Meyer

#28. I know when we were really little, my mom would say to me, "If you can, the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, just get quiet and ask God, 'Who is Patricia?' You can feel your own nature and know who you are."

Patricia Arquette

#29. When you pray do so correctly following the TAP routine: T is to first Thank God, A is to ask kindly for whatever you need and P is to praise Him simply by saying, "You are the best and the greatest.

Norma Ayuso

#30. Instead of automatically blaming the person who does not believe in God, we should ask first if his notion of God is a God that ought to be believed in.

George MacDonald

#31. God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Davis Bunn

#32. Does anybody out there care? Are we worth saving? What would God want from me, if there is a God? The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God, but in all of us.

Justin Cronin

#33. We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

Watchman Nee