Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
— CS Lewis
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
— Samuel Johnson
It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.
— Samuel Johnson
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
— Hudson Taylor
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
— Henri Matisse
God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows
— Timothy Keller
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
— Victor Hugo
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
— Thomas Merton
"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.
— John Newton
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.
— Anonymous
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
— William Osler