Ole Hallesby Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Play, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Exercise

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Moving

• We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them.

  Ole Hallesby

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Blessing

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Doors, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Giving, Waiting

• Praise lies upon a higher plane than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration.

  Ole Hallesby

  Lying, Self, Circles

  "Prayer".

• God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.

  Ole Hallesby

  Wise, Mistake, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

  Ole Hallesby

  Expression, Giving, Doubt

• It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Blessed, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and for-evermore. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.

  Ole Hallesby

  Blessed, Heart, Giving

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

• It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Giving, Answers

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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