Quotes about Request
You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
- James 4:2
and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
- 1 John 3:22
And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we already possess what we have asked of Him.
- 1 John 5:15
Preparation time is necessary for your growth. Trust and believe everything you're going through is preparing you for some request you put out into the Universe.
- Germany Kent
Jesus said, 'You have not, because you ask not.
- Terri Blackstock
Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For, he murmured, scarcely above his breath as he turned to his books, I have done with men.
- Virginia Woolf
Oliver Twist has asked for more!
- Charles Dickens
He could only say the one thing he was afraid to say: Will you hide in my house, master?
- DH Lawrence
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
- Dale Carnegie
So prayer is a total activity, incorporating many elements essential to a personal relationship between two persons—persons different from and related to one another as the Father is to his children on earth. But still the heart of prayer is the request.
- Dallas Willard
A great poet has correctly stated this universal truth through these lines: "I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store. "For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. "I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.
- Napoleon Hill
For Life is a just employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task.
- Napoleon Hill