Unanswered Prayers Quotes

• The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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• There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Humility, Catholic

  Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

  Bill Johnson

  Prayer, Want, Unanswered

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• Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

  Garth Brooks

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Song: Unanswered Prayers

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• When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Reality, Sometimes, Wonder

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

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• Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Father, Taught

  "Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character".

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• I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Running

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

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• Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.

  Rick Warren

  Prayer, Character, Promise

  Rick Warren (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”

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• If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Hope, Jesus, Pain

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• We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Prayer

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House

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• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  Garth Brooks

  Happiness, Heartbroken, Spiritual

  Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990

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• More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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• Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Prayer, Thank God, Praise

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• If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

  Bill Johnson

  Way, Rejoice, Discovering

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• I talk to God but the sky is empty.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sad, God, Faith

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• Thank God for unanswered prayers.

  Garth Brooks

  Prayer, Thank God, Desire

  Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990

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• Give us this day our daily mask.

  Tom Stoppard

  Bible, Prayer, Bread Of Life

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber

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• It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

  Mitch Albom

  Thinking, Comforting, Said

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh;
  Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear;
  To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh;
  Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

  George Croly

  Patience, Art, Prayer

  George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Faith, Prayer, Believe

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• Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

  Rick Warren

  Character, Tests, Life Is

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.40, Zondervan

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• One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Girl, Religious, Horse

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

  Mitch Albom

  Prayer, Pain, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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