Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5-6
Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers.
— CS Lewis
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate prayer. I'd rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.
— Mark Batterson
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
— JI Packer
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
— Erica Jong
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
— CS Lewis
I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.
— David Platt
Teach me O God not to torture myself not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
— Soren Kierkegaard
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
— Oswald Chambers
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
— Seneca
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
— Anonymous
O Lord you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done as you please. Give what you will how much you will and when you will.
— Thomas a Kempis
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
— Oswald Chambers