Quotes related to James 1:5
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
— George Bernard Shaw
The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us. Here's my advice: pray about what to pray about. God will reveal a promise, a problem, or a person. Then circle whatever God has prompted you to pray for with the same kind of consistency with which the earth circles the sun.
— Mark Batterson
We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.
— Mark Batterson
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.
— Mark Batterson
We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.
— Mark Batterson
We pray out of our ignorance, but God answers out of His omniscience. We pray out of our impotence, but God answers out of His omnipotence. God has the ability to answer the prayers we should have prayed but lacked the knowledge or ability to even ask. During
— Mark Batterson
After all, prayer is the difference between the best you can do and the best God can do. And that's a big difference! If we hit our knees, the Holy Spirit will do the heavy lifting. If we hit our knees, the Holy Spirit will reveal things that can only be discovered in the presence of God. If we hit our knees, the Holy Spirit will give us God-ideas for our ministry, family, business - for our lives.
— Mark Batterson
We are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.
— Mark Batterson
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
— Mark Twain
I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.
— George W. Bush