I Ask God Quotes

#1. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Shane Claiborne

#2. I ask God every day to give me the words to tell the kids. That's my mentality, and that's what I'm intending to do.

La'el Collins

#3. I ask God all sorts of questions, but only science ever answers back.

Sarah Noffke

#4. When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

Richard Simmons

#5. I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.

Hubert De Givenchy

#6. It's so hard being handsome, isn't it?" I mocked him.
But he nodded and shrugged. "Sometimes I ask God why, but then I realize someone has to show the world the perfect male specimen. Why not me?

Amelia LeFay

#7. When I go to bed at night, I ask God to give me another day; I ask him to keep me strong and make me a good teacher and to keep spreading this right word.

Richard Simmons

#8. If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.

Toba Beta

#9. Dear soulmate,
I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction.

Frank Warren

#10. Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

Richard Simmons

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

Robert Hood

#12. Why me? I ask God. God says nothing. I laugh and the stars watch. It's good to be alive.

Markus Zusak

#13. I ask God most often that we would be an unbroken line of Christians until Christ shall return.

Philip Yancey

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

Beyonce Knowles

#15. When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Encouraged by this recollection, I pick up my spear again, attack the weeds I did not invite to grow in my garden, and am left with this morning's one lesson: when something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the same courage mercilessly to pluck it out.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#18. You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

Ben Carson

#19. I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Hans Frank

#20. However, God the Holy Spirit spoke to me, saying "You have to stop asking people for your financial and material needs; instead, ask Me. I am your bread winner.

Jimi Akanbi

#21. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!

Archibald Marwizi

#22. And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

Norman Mailer

#23. Don't know how many minutes I stood there. It was precisely the comfort she seemed to need this night. If only she had known to ask, or I to give, we could've done away with the blindfold ... Thank God for the blindfold. She

Abraham Verghese

#24. I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

Frank Wedekind

#25. I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

Joyce Meyer

#26. I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

Ronald Reagan

#27. When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Albert Einstein

#28. I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.

Beatrice Sparks

#29. You're not alone, and you're not the one in charge," Mother said gently. "Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God - and each other and ourselves - in times as dark as these.

Kristin Hannah

#30. In my despair I remember
that there is life after death;
there is life after death
and I have no problem.
But I ask:
Oh my God,
is there life before death?

Mourid Barghouti

#31. It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

William P. Young

#32. The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Wilfred Grenfell

#33. We are accustomed to believe that our world was created by God speaking the Word; but I ask, may it not rather be that he wrote it, wrote a Word so long we have yet to come to the end of it? May it not be that God continually writes the world, the world and all that is in it?

J.M. Coetzee

#34. Oh, dear God, you have given abundant blessings. I do not deserve them, and I cannot help but ask for more.

Lori Smith

#35. I want a thousand things for my children, and I ask without hesitation, but I want nothing more than that God would be glorified. Life is just a breath. All that will matter forever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through their lives and ours.

Beth Moore

#36. 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

#37. God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.

Julian Of Norwich

#38. I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

Gabrielle Union

#39. It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers are religious ... I find a need for God in the universe and in my own life.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

#40. You're crazy, Dylan. Oh, my God, you proposed marriage with index cards? No one else in the world would do that. Yes. Yes, Yes! If you ask me a thousand times, then every single time I'll say yes.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#41. We become like what we worship. If you find yourself constantly bitter or angry, a good question to ask is, what god am I worshiping?

Josh Ross

#42. I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

Hudson Taylor

#43. When I listen to you, God
when I do what you ask me to,
I am like a tree
planted by a river,
a tree full of fruit
with leaves that are always green. Ps 1(paraphrased)

Marie-Helene Delval

#44. I apologize to all my fans. I ask for your prayers for a successful surgery and healthy body. I will be back in shape to fight again and to give you more excitement. A big hug for all of you and be with God.

Wanderlei Silva

#45. Oh you're one of those people are you? The people who ask God for something and when they get it, they tell God to forget about answering that particular prayer because it's just happened. That's one of my pet hates, I'm sorry.

Elizabeth Newton

#46. I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, 'I'll never ask anything of Him again;' but, on the contrary, 'He shall hear oftener from me than ever,' and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.

Philip Henry

#47. In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything.

Ben Carson

#48. Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Henry David Thoreau

#49. God Almighty, I don't want to ask for more. But to say more thanks.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#50. Readable, faithful, accurate-what more could you ask for in a modern translation of the Bible? GOD'S WORD Translation is a great version for enhancing your love for God's Word. I recommend it.

Ann Spangler

#51. If your expectation of God's Word in your life has been small, I ask you to consider giving it far more credit. Second Timothy 3:16 (NIV) says, "All Scripture is God-breathed," so don't just read it like any other inspirational or instructional text. Inhale it!

Beth Moore

#52. On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Peter Kreeft

#53. I ask people what piece they are on the chessboard. And some people say 'I'm the king' or 'I'm the knight.' And then they ask me what piece I am, and I say, 'I'm no piece. I take the position of God.'

RZA

#54. In theory, every loss is for our own good; in practice, though, that is when we question the existence of God and ask ourselves: What did I do to deserve this?

Paulo Coelho

#55. Knowing that God is the Provider of Limitless Blessing, I'd like to challenge you, in the midst of your own trials, to ask how you can bless someone else today.

Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#56. Dear God, I know I am a sinner. Forgive me and pardon me for waiting so long. I receive your love and salvation and ask you to live your life through me. I accept you as my Savior and resolve to live for you until you come again.

Tim LaHaye

#57. I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Deepak Chopra

#58. Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet

Jack Kerouac

#59. Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: "what did you do with your life?" We must all answer this question, and woe betides those who answer: "I remained standing at the door.

Paulo Coelho

#60. Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

Dakota Fanning

#61. I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Mariano Rivera

#62. 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

#63. To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,
Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide,
And tremble to be happy with the rest."
And I make answer: "I am satisfied;
I dare not ask; I know not what is best;
God hath already said what shall betide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#64. Thank God for the little things I do have, because I do not ask Him for much.

Angela Brown

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. I once ask God for the world, It was placed upon my shoulders, I supose that means it is mine....

Dollar Bill McGonigle

#68. I'm told I have the body of a god."
"A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#69. When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?'

Charlie Munger

#70. People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

Adam Duritz

#71. Your question to me is about God, but boiled down to its essentials, it's not so different than most of the questions people ask me to answer. It says: This failed me and I want to do better next time. My answer will not be so different either: To do better you're going to have to try.

Cheryl Strayed

#72. Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."

James Patterson

#73. I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.

Stephen King

#74. From Joan Baez at Town Hall in New York City, on her 50th Anniversary Tour as a performer. "People always ask me about my voice. I tell them, 'The gift is from God. My job is just maintenance and delivery.

Terry Brennan

#75. When I get to heaven one day, I'm going to ask God how it's possible that time moves so much quicker on the weekends than on school days.

Jenny B. Jones

#76. We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

Erwin McManus

#77. I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that's all I can ask for.

Nick Goepper

#78. Brother will kill brother, spill blood across the land. Killing for religion, something I don't understand. Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands, ask the sheep for their beliefs; 'Do you kill on God's command?'

Dave Mustaine

#79. Dear God, I surrender this situation to you. May it be used for your purposes. I ask only that my heart be open to give love and to receive love. May all the results unfold according to your will. Amen. Whatever you do, do it for God.

Marianne Williamson

#80. Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask ... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?

Pope Francis

#81. I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word 'placenta.' I wanted to say: 'Now tell me again how you got here?' Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.

Jill McCorkle

#82. That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.

Robert A. Heinlein

#83. 5. Today I will listen to the voice of REPLACEMENT, which says, "I must find those who can heal me." I will ask God to bring people into my life who can, and will, restore in me what others may have damaged.

Bishop Jim Swilley

#84. You ask me, I welcome new gods. Bring them on. The god of the guns. The god of bombs. All the gods of ignorance and intolerance, of self-righteousness, idiocy and blame.

Neil Gaiman

#85. 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

#86. I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.

Charles Spurgeon

#87. Please God, please God, can you please tell me why? I ask this of you, yet in my heart, I know.

Rita Leganski

#88. I am sorry, I am very sorry to ask you to lie, he said, so earnestly that I wondered if it hurt him to lie. That made him seem more like a god than a human being. If it hurt to lie, how could you stay alive?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#89. Ask me, "Why would you travel on the difficult path?". Because , I trust God to walk me through the unknown journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#90. Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

D.E. Stevenson

#91. And if I tried to talk to him or, God forbid, ask him to take it easy on the whisky, he'd lash out. "Oh, sod off, Beryl. It's all easy for you, isn't it?

Paula McLain

#92. [Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer ...
And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Elie Wiesel

#93. 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

#94. I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

Elie Wiesel

#95. In my best moments, when I calm down and listen closely, God says, I didn't ask you to become new and improved today. That wasn't the goal. You were broken down and strange yesterday, and you still are today, and the only one freaked out about it is you.

Shauna Niequist

#96. In looking forward to what remains to be done, my readers will perhaps echo what my publishers say, "Please God to spare you!" I only ask to be less tormented by men and things than I have hitherto been since I began this terrific labor. I

Honore De Balzac

#97. 25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'
26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.'
27 And the Lord did not ask him again.

Neil Gaiman

#98. I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

Billy Graham

#99. At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

Iyanla Vanzant

#100. Thank you from the heart to all those who in various ways are near me or follow me spiritually with affection and prayers from afar. To each one of you, I ask you to continue to support me by praying to God to let me be his gentle and firm pastor of his church.

Pope Benedict XVI