Quotes About Asking

Why invite sorrow? Life is long enough to contain enough without asking for more.

As a child has to prove a sum to be correct, so the proof that we have prayed correctly is the answer. If we ask and don't receive, it is because we have not learned to pray correctly. Let every learner in the school of Christ therefore take the Master's Word in all simplicity: Every one that asks receives.

So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

The pleasure of receiving the rank and rise to a deserving person is in bagging it without asking and not getting it by begging.

If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

Curiosity is the process of asking questions, genuine questions, that are not leading to an ask for something in return.

A lot of our creative flow comes from a place of curiosity and exploration. It often feels like we're excavating and asking questions and not just giving answers but really just exploring.

I'm not good at raising money. I don't like to raise money. It's been my experience that when I ask someone for money, it's not long before they return the favor.

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it.

those who truly know, knows those who don't, will learn if they ask

selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Giving thanks is usually the result of receiving something. Asking or begging is an energy that comes from not having (lack). With prayers said in this way, the Universe aligns so that you receive abundantly that for which you are thankful.

If you look at your prayers, ninety-five percent of the prayers in the world are all about either asking for something, fundamentally asking for protection

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

The challenge is to ask a two-part question: What next? What now? Asking is the hard part.

I wasn't asking you," Justice said. "Nice.

Movies and life become a little more symmetrical when you start asking for and looking for connections.

I never thought of asking anyone to do it for me. Somethings wrong with me. In a time of trouble should people not be able to ask help without feeling demeaned?

Others believe in prayer . . . . have not all yet learnt, that to ask it to be denied? Let it be the root of your Gospel. Oh, ye who are living other peoples lives! Unless desire is subconscious, it is not fulfilled, no, not in this life. Then verily sleep is better than prayer. Quiescence is hidden desire, a form of "not asking"; by it the female obtains much from man.

It's considered totally obscene to make any request to God, because if he doesn't know, what's the point asking him?

In order to break the treaty, we have to learn to ask for and then, just as crucially, accept help. First, though, it is important to understand ourselves, and to discover what it is that we need. Habits set up over a lifetime may be hard to break but, certainly, it is easier once you have identified them.

What surf Of what far sea upon what unknown ground Troubles forever with that asking sound? What surge is this whose question never ceases?

He never pronounced judgment on current events and people, despite some of my hints; and I forbore asking directly, lest I inadvertently say something about someone in his family--or worse, him.