Very appropriately, does the priest reciting the Divine Office ask God to open his lips, to fortify his conscience, to touch his heart.

How I did ask God to let me out in some way, to bring somebody to help me?

And if you want to hear the flowers Speak ancient words, all new, They may, if you, in darksome hours, Ask God to comfort you.

"Uncle Edward, when you say your prayers to-night, will you ask God to make Tommy come back home?

Ask God to help you to keep this resolution; pray that you may be gentle, kind, and forgiving; humble, and willing to be reproved; and that the beginning of your new year may be the beginning of a new life with you.

" She went to Mary's room, and putting her arms around her neck, she said, "Dear sister, I cannot ask God to forgive me my trespasses this night until I have told you how sorry I am that I treated you so unkindly this afternoon.

" Gottfried needed to collect his thoughts, and to ask God for his Spirit of peace and love.

"But, Arnold," resumed Theobald, with humility, "by what right, wicked as I am, can I ask God to pardon me?"

" I replied loftily that I was not afraid, because I would ask God to mend it for me.

Ask God to help you forgive those who wrong you.

I ask God every day to let me find something to do.

But when we ask God to help us, we must always try to help ourselves.

Surely I did again and again ask God to decide the question for me as to whether I should leave home or not, and believed that He had chosen for me.

A prominent Christian had just entered a merchant's counting-room, when the head man of the place said to him, "Let us kneel and ask God to help me through, for without his help, I shall be a bankrupt before the setting of the sun."

"I might mention a dozen instances in which church troubles were gathering, and trials between members appeared certain, when all my tactics failed, and the wisdom of brethren was of no avail; my last resort was to ask God to send help and deliver from the threatened eviland in ways that no one could foresee, complete deliverance came.

Finally, in order to quiet her childish fears, her Christian mother told her to ask God to help her.

He said to one of the Montenegrin officers, "When I say my prayers for myself I always ask God to be good to that English gentleman."

The women were hiding in their rooms, asking Godeven before the war they used to ask God funny questionshow they were going to live now that their lovers had gone away to fight, leaving them with nothing but the memory of a last kiss wet with tears.

I don't ask God to forgive him;I don't, and God won't.

"The storm did not abate, so the priest was sent for, and he decided to hold a prayer service on the seashore and ask God to make peace on the water.

Then surrendering myself to meditation, I was about to ask God for His compassion, when sleep closed my eyes.

We need to forgive and ask God to help us to love everyone regardless of what they do to us.

But then, I did not ask God to make me a woman, and certainly he did not make me as other women.

Having had no mercy on the innocent, how shall you ask God to have mercy on you?"

I shall ask God to let me wait at the stair-head a little while for youtill it should be time for you to come, my dear, my dear.