Quotes from Angels Watching Over Me

“alone doesn’t usually do much to help folks wake up on the inside. What wakes people up the quickest is some kind of tragedy or grief.”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“I sat for a long time in silence. I didn’t get any more feelings that God was saying anything. Maybe He’d said all He had to say. If that was true, then I reckoned it was time I did what He’d told me to do—ask Him. God had had His say. Now it was my turn. I don’t suppose God keeps talking to someone who’s not paying attention to what He says. If you want Him to keep talking to you, I guess you’ve got to keep your half of the conversation going, and right now I figured that my half of the conversation was to do what He’d told me.”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“Some folks think praying happens only when you’re in church or are actually talking to God. But I’m not so sure. I think that when you’re feeling the silent mysteries of the world, and feeling the tunes that God put into it for us to listen to, and when you let His creation make you happy, then that’s a kind of praying too.”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“Maybe thinking about God does that to you—quiets you down inside and makes you less fretful. I was”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“I wondered if there might be a difference between what you wanted to do yourself, even if you thought it was right, and what God wanted you to do. And how else could you find out what He wanted except by asking Him?”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“If that was it, I thought, it was a whole new way of looking at things, a whole new way of looking at life. I’d always done whatever I figured I ought to do. That was the kind of person I was. I just did what I thought was best. Maybe that wasn’t how it was supposed to be after you’d opened up your heart to God. Maybe you were supposed to ask somebody else, and who else would that be but God?”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“was. I just knew it was”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

“Jesus is the door to eternal life (John 10:9). Open the door of your heart and let Him live there.”
― Michael R. Phillips, quote from Angels Watching Over Me

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