Top 100 Asked God Quotes
#1. Ronowski looked scared when he asked God what he was doing. "You shouldn't be alone tonight." God's tone clearly indicated it was a command not a suggestion. "Hey,
A.E. Via
#2. Hold of the thoughts, and have asked God for His blessing, to go out in the hope that the blessing
Andrew Murray
#3. When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.
Charles Stanley
#4. In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.
John Edwards
#5. A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something
Ambrose Bierce
#6. I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.
Lionel Blue
#7. Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
Malala Yousafzai
#8. i asked God to give me a love via synchronicity so when it was my time to allow someone into my heart ~ he entered my world, as if by magic.
Nikki Rowe
#9. Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#10. I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
Donald Miller
#11. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo Philips
#12. He quickly asked God to cleanse his lips, and only after that was done did God release him to go and prophesy His message to others
Joyce Meyer
#13. anyone in recovery will tell you, setbacks are part of the process in long-term change. Rather than beat myself up, I simply asked God and my friends to help me get back on track.
Rick Warren
#14. Who did you pray for?"
I stared down at the lake. "I prayed for Mandy."
"That's so sweet."
"Yeah, I asked God to make her less annoying.
M.K. Schiller
#15. How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#16. I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America.
Donald Miller
#18. Don't be disheartened when you didn't get to be with the one you love. Sometimes you just have to accept the reality that the one you asked God for, asked God for somebody else. God is All-Knowing. He knows what you need. Trust His master plan.
Rita Zahara
#19. I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.
Ernestine Rose
#20. I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.
Eugene B. Sledge
#21. We vigilantly asked God to make our marriage and family (and the families of all those involved in the film) bulletproof against these incessant attacks.
Priscilla Shirer
#22. I've asked God to make it clear. He can either shut the door or open it. I don't want it unless He wants it for me.
Karen Kingsbury
#23. Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
Norman Vincent Peale
#24. He reminded me of all the questions I asked God years ago when God was too busy to answer.
Try asking God. I think it helps especially if you have problems talking to adults.
Juanita Ray
#25. You have no idea. Lillith was defiant and obstinate. Adam was, well, he was a man. He thought with his dick. He asked God for a companion. It was his only request. God told him his wife would show herself to him. He misunderstood. He came upon Lillith bathing in the lake.
T.L. Brown
#26. When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.
Gilbert Arenas
#27. Doesn't God say, I am closer to you than your jugular vein?" I asked. "God is not someplace far up in the sky. He is inside each and every one of us. That is why He never abandons us. How can He abandon Himself?
Elif Shafak
#28. I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
Narada Michael Walden
#29. Sometimes this sentence "I am praying for you" can be so dishonest and lowering that there are occasions I have looked up in heaven and asked God, "please don't accept that prayer".
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#30. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away. I
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on proceedings that would have put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#32. She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.
Craig Groeschel
#33. His soul was susceptible to god's whimsy, just as his body was susceptible to any opportunistic thing that might hurt it. If he'd known how to pray, Six would have asked God to take his gift away.
Ayana Mathis
#34. This is what we're going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.
Ben Carson
#35. Of course, Jesus was the most courageous man who ever lived. He prayed and asked God to take the cup from Him before He went to the cross, but He still went because He knew that's what He was supposed to do.
Matt Cullen
#36. I asked God for decades "Who am i?"
he finally answered:
To know who you are,
you must first realise what you are.
Faruk H.T.
#37. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."
T. Kingfisher
#38. How'd you come up with cemetery?" Julian asked Nick.
"Call it divine inspiration."
"Yeah, I'm betting God was invoked a lot last night," JD said under his breath.
"Shhh," Kelly begged.
Abigail Roux
#39. [T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Elaine Dundy
#40. ("Tell me," a rabbi asked Daniel Bell when he said, as a child, that he did not believe in God. "Do you think God cares?")
Joan Didion
#41. My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along.
"I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian.
Jefferson Bass
#42. Is it because she's a challenge to you?" she asked, not looking away. "Because if you're going out with her because she's not easy, I swear to God, I will cut you."
I burst into laughter. "Cut me?"
Her eyes narrowed. "I'm not joking.
J. Lynn
#43. I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
Charlie Daniels
#44. Without thinking, I asked, "Are you afraid of temptation?"
He shook his head. "God, no. Just being with you, just seeing you. Fuck." He mostly swallowed the expletive, his hips rolling in a way that made me think the movement was instinctual, then added on a rush, "You breathing tempts me.
Penny Reid
#45. Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs?"
"Thank you, God," Petra said.
Libba Bray
#46. Asked why we should strive to know God, my answer would be selfish: I want to be a creator. This is the ultimate promise of spirituality, that you can become the author of your own existence, the maker of personal destiny. Your brain is already performing this service for you unconsciously.
Deepak Chopra
#47. When I began my pilgrimage I left the Los Angeles area without a cent, having faith that God would provide me with everything I needed. Although I have never asked for anything, God has provided me with everything along the way. Without ever asking for anything I've been supplied.
Peace Pilgrim
#48. Oh God, that hurts," she whimpered.
"What hurts?" Kye asked, sounding concerned.
"The invisible man pounding spikes into my head."
"That doesn't sound good. Maybe you should take out an invisible Taser gun and zap the son of a bitch.
Julie James
#49. Murray said, "Is this Heaven?"
The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place."
Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?
Isaac Asimov
#50. Where to now?" I asked.
"Hold on," Robert said. "I'm still ... coming to terms with your mode of transportation."
"Take your time," I nudged Cuddles, turning her to give him a better view. Cuddles flicked her ears, lifted her feet, and pranced. Oh dear God.
Ilona Andrews
#51. What part did she give you?" Zoe asked her mother.
"Mary, the mother of God."
"Talk about miscasting," Nelia said.
Pamela Todd
#52. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.
Francis Chan
#53. 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#54. That's not a lucky thing, Cecil," said Teresa, "it's a sacred thing."
"What's the difference?" Cecil asked.
Teresa smiled. "Roughly this," she said. "A thing is magic if you get what you want through it; but if it is blessed you get what God wants through it.
Meriol Trevor
#55. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.
Charles Webster Leadbeater
#56. If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
Frederick Buechner
#57. Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?'
No there's plenty of god-damned gas.'
Where are we going?'
I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!
Charles Bukowski
#58. When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.
Anne Graham Lotz
#59. All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Martin Luther
#60. I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'
David Jeremiah
#61. Do you believe in God, Venkat?" Mitch asked.
"Sure, lots of 'em," Venkat said. "I'm Hindu.
Andy Weir
#62. Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn't give you what you asked for?
Mark Batterson
#63. It is not your responsibility to explain what God is doing with your life. He has not provided enough information to figure it out. Instead, you are asked to turn loose and let God be God. Therein lies the secret to the "peace that transcends understanding.
Jen Hatmaker
#64. God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.
Rick Warren
#65. Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way.
Dolly Parton
#66. What are god's?" asked the buffalo man.
"I don't know," said Shadow.
Neil Gaiman
#67. He frowned, his voice softer. "I don't know if it's Josh or what, but you need to get the hell out, or I swear to God, you'll end up spending the rest of your life in this shithole, just like all those girls - " "You mean like me?" Dylan asked, her voice suddenly hard.
Heather Demetrios
#68. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes.
Martin Luther
#69. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting.
Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom.
Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have a good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering.
Jeannette Walls
#70. When asked where God is, people point towards the sky or some far and distant region: no wonder then that He does not manifest Himself! Realize that He is in you, with you, behind you, and all around you; and He can be seen and felt everywhere.
Sathya Sai Baba
#71. What God has asked you to do is not just difficult, it is impossible. He is well able!
Christine Caine
#72. I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.
Joss Stone
#73. When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.
Dennis Lehane
#74. How old are you?" the woman asked. "You look about eleven." "Twenty-four," Mae said. "My god. You don't have a mark on you. Were we ever twenty-four, my love?" She turned to the man, who was using a ballpoint pen to scratch the arch of his foot. He shrugged, and the woman let the matter drop.
Dave Eggers
#75. We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.
George H. W. Bush
#76. At another house two women learned very fast; I say women, but one was a girl about twelve or thirteen, already married, however. There was a little child about three years old. My sister asked, 'Who is the True God's Son?' The little thing replied, in a very sweet voice, 'Jesus.'
Lottie Moon
#77. There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.
Marianne Williamson
#78. I couldn't have asked for more than God in deliberate grace has surprised me with!
Jim Elliot
#79. Recently God asked me the same question in a new way, "And if I don't allow you to heal, if I never remove the pain, will you still trust Me?
Cindee Snider Re
#80. Stephen jerked his thumb towards the window, saying:
- That is God.
Hooray! Ay! Whrrwhee!
- What? Mr Deasy asked.
- A shout in the street, Stephen answered, shrugging his shoulders.
James Joyce
#81. A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.
Peter L. Berger
#82. There are only two reasons why you should ever be asked to give your youngsters. One is defense of our homes. The other is the defense of our Bill of Rights and particularly the right to worship God as we see fit. Every other reason advanced for the murder of young men is a racket, pure and simple.
Smedley D. Butler
#83. As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, Even here? Even here?
Rick Strassman
#84. When Miri asked if she believed in God, what was she supposed to say? 'Of course I believe in God,' she'd told her.
'But how could God let such a terrible thing happen?'
'It's not God's job to decide what happens,' she'd said. 'It's his job to help you through it.
Judy Blume
#85. Dustin Runnels came up to me and asked me if I made my peace with God today. I don't know if I ever had a fight with him.
Jerry Lawler
#86. But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it with such visible splendor?
Guy De Maupassant
#87. And when James asked what color God was, she said, God is the color of water.
James McBride
#88. Sometimes, the only thing that stands in your way from moving on completely is one question. Sadly, it is the one question God asked another person to answer for you. Be the solution, not the problem.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. When I had asked Mrs. Flowers how she held up in the face of all the death and violence within her neighborhood, she had given me a simple answer: This family talks to God.
Jonathan Kozol
#90. So, did you need to hear that? Did you really need to know more?' Xas asked.
'Yes. It's always better to know more.'
'God help you,' Xas said with feeling.
Elizabeth Knox
#91. When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#92. A certain man from Madurai asked: How to know the Power of God? M.: You say 'I AM'. That is it. What else can say I AM? One's own being is His Power. The trouble arises only when one says, "I am this or that, such and such." Do not do it - Be yourself. That is all.
Arunachala Sadhu
#93. Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
Josemaria Escriva
#94. A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. "Young woman," said he. "You don't reconcile friends
Elisabeth Elliot
#95. Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us."
When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. "Now what's up?" I asked.
"Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that."
I said: "if you're lying to the old man, God'll punish you.
Dashiell Hammett
#96. In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: Multiply entities unnecessarily.
J. Budziszewski
#97. God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
Timothy Keller
#98. They asked you the name of the god you worshipped and you replied, "Myself.
Amber Sparks
#99. Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!" "Oh, who?" he asked, pausing. "Oh Adam?" "That's more like it.
N.M. Silber
#100. When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'
Andrew Sullivan
