Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders.
– Billy Graham
Related Quotes:
- Leadership isn’t just about giving orders. A fool can give orders. A leader listens. He changes his mind. He acknowledges mistakes. – Brian Staveley
- Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. – Mother Teresa
- But prayer isn’t asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right. – Max Lucado
- Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer. – Billy Graham
- Whether prayer changes our situation or not, one thing is certain: Prayer will change us! – Billy Graham
- Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’s Spirit as we read His Word. – Billy Graham
- We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings. – Billy Graham
- If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits. – Billy Graham
- No harm in listening. Alexei’s a child, not a wizard. We don’t lose control of our brains by listening. – Katherine Rundell
- Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn’t waste of time. It’s how somebody becomes wise! – Deyth Banger
- Being a good communicator Patch, begins with listening, and listening to yourself first. – Michele Jennae
- Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. – Fred Rogers
- Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. – Leslie Jamison
- There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal. – Robin Hobb
- Asking a parent not to be a parent is like asking the sun not to be hot or snow not to be cold. – Lesa Howard
- That’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking, what’s your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to? – Neal Stephenson
- Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering. – Sharon Salzberg
- Asking someone to make for you money is like asking them to make for you a baby: they will own the money just as they will own the baby – Agona Apell
- Asking ‘why’ only makes us feel hopeless. Asking ‘how’ points the way forward, and shows us what we must do – Sue Klebold
- You’re not asking me for advice, you’re asking me for permission. – Steve Maraboli
- Ethan: -œI’m not asking you to continue that night.-Karis: -œThen what are you asking?-Ethan: -œFor a whole new night. – Monique DeVere
- When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you. – Richelle E Goodrich
- Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening. – Billy Graham
- Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith. – Elizabeth George
- In war, our elders may give the orders…but it is the young who have to fight. – TH White
- At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- The question is simply,’Who is your master?’Once that’s settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders. – Elisabeth Elliot
- A lion does not take orders from sheep. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their desks and give orders. – Karina Halle
- Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders– they are outsold. – Jim Holden
- I’d always follow Nixon’s orders, but you can’t order somebody to be happy. – Charles W Colson
- Dr Adams was following my orders if you want to blame someone blame me -casiusoh i do,I’m just so pissed i had extra left over – Jace – DD Barant
- To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don’t follow those orders which make no sense. – Amit Kalantri
- Just following orders’ is no excuse unless you’re in the bedroom. – Donna Lynn Hope
- By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution’s highest rank – dignity. – Bryant McGill
- Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take orders with a living, nor without? – Jane Austen
- I shiver at the command. Why do I love the way he orders me around when I won’t stand the same from another man? – Magda Alexander
- In the matters of your life don’t take orders, take decisions. – Amit Kalantri
- Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould – Jonathan Haidt
- Cats randomly refuse to follow orders to prove they can. – Ilona Andrews