Answered 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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• God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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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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• 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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• Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

  Kathryn Kuhlman

  Jesus, Prayer, Details

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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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• God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

  Croft M. Pentz

  Prayer, Answers, Wiser

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• People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Prayer, People, Miracle

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• Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Giving Up, Knowing

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

  J. D. Greear

  God, Religious, Prayer

  J.D. Greear (2011). “Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary”, p.187, B&H Publishing Group

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• Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

  Twitter post from Aug 27, 2017

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• God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Order, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

  Michael E. DeBakey

  Prayer, Healing, Blessing To Others

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• If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

  Wally Lamb

  Prayer, Want, Knees

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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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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• O, do not pray for easy lives.

  Phillips Brooks

  Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

  Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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• If you do all the talking when you pray, how will you ever hear God's answers?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Talking, Answers, Praying

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• Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

  Ole Hallesby

  God, Faith, Christian

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

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• Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  Billy Graham (2006). “Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Voice, Secret

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• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

  George Meredith

  Spiritual, Prayer, Men

  'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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• Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

  Andrew Murray

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Achievement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.11, CCEL

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