You must ask for what you really want.
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.
If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?
I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
Ask BIG questions, find BIG answers.
It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.
When Mrs. Jinnah feels cold, she will say so, and ask for a wrap herself.
We are too kind, too willing--too unwilling too--reaching out blindly with a grasping hand but not knowing how to ask for what we don't even know we want.
The Lord will give you, if you ask, the feelings of the compassion He feels for those in need.
God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.
Can I give a little advice to the old man on Capitol Hill? Stop saying teabagger. Ask your younger staffers what it means.
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'