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Quotes About Prompting

Duke tossed them over the roof. Earl was about to ask Duke to sit in back when he did so without prompting.
~ A. Lee Martinez
The unexpected sometimes looks like a prompting of fate.
~ Rachel Cusk
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
~ Francis Chan
The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.
~ M. Russell Ballard
We live in an age of 'urge'. We do nothing till somebody shoves us.
~ Will Rogers
Prikhodite seychas," he orders, come now,
~ Jane Henry
gaining understanding is an important first step in effective prayer. An inner prompting will alert you to something your mind does not quite comprehend. At these times just ask the Lord to help you know how He wants you to pray.
~ Dutch Sheets
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The most reliable and proper feeling is often a gentle sense that does not compel. It is like a voice but not a voice; it is a sense that prompts but does not compel. This most precious sense is the operating and anointing of the Holy Spirit within our spirit.
~ Witness Lee
To attract people naturally, effortlessly, we need only follow the true prompting of our hearts.
~ Wu Wei
Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.
~ Thomas S. Monson
But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.
~ Donald Whitney
I had to go. A spirit in my feet said 'Go', and I went.
~ Mathew Brady
When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn't happen very often. But I obey
~ Madeleine L'Engle
When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn't happen very often. But I obey it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
But you know you're sounding like a jealous wife? Are you jealous, luv? I find that rather amusing, all things considered." "Don't start laughing too soon, because I'm nothing of the sort." "No?" He was still grinning, prompting her to snap, "Your unexpected presence here smacks of jealousy as well, as in checking up on your wife, but you don't hear me accusing you of it." "I believe you just did.
~ Johanna Lindsey
many cases, you'll find your lack of doing a behavior is not a motivation issue at all. You can solve for the behavior by finding a good prompt or by making the behavior easier to do.
~ B.J. Fogg
. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.
~ Richard G. Scott
When something hits you, you better go with it.
~ Cole Swindell
The uneducated Christian waits until he feels the prompting of the Spirit before he takes action. The Word-filled believer takes action based upon the facts of God's commands, regardless of how he feels about it.
~ Bill Hull
Listen to that quiet voice, that fleeting thought that says, Why don't you…?
~ Melody Beattie
God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.
~ Billy Graham
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
~ Juvenal