Prayers Not Being Answered Quotes - Page 2

• Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Conquer, Weak, Aids

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth, Glen M. Johnson (1994). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, University of Missouri Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Prayer, Perfect, Wish

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Prayer, Reading, Law

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.90, Hachette UK

  132 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

  John G. Lake

  Prayer, Differences, Praying

  John G. Lake (2009). “John G. Lake On Healing”, p.154, Whitaker House

  245 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian Inspirational, Given, Sermon On The Mount

  34 Copy quote

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

  13 Copy quote

• Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right.
  Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray,
  Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
  Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Prayer, Light, Sick

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge: With a Memoir of His Life by His Brother. ...”, p.369

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

  Matthew Henry

  Prayer, Practice, May

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.391

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  "You Are All Diseased". Book by George Carlin, 1999.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

  John Piper

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Use

  317 Copy quote

• Worship is the earthly act by which we most distinctly recognize our personal immortality; men who think that they will be extinct a few years hence do not pray. In worship we spread out our insignificant life, which yet is the work of the Creator's hands, and the purchase of the Redeemer's blood, before the Eternal and All-Merciful, that we may learn the manners of a higher sphere, and fit ourselves for companionship with saints and angels, and for the everlasting sight of the face of God.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 457. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

  Corrie Ten Boom, Pam Rosewell Moore (2004). “Life Lessons from Corrie Ten Boom”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give me the Love that leads the way The Faith that nothing can dismay The Hope no disappointments tire The Passion that'll burn like fire Let me not sink to be a clod Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God

  Amy Carmichael

  Disappointment, Passion, Fire

  58 Copy quote

• There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Gun, Fire

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Prayer, Giving, Mind

  188 Copy quote

• Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a most initial form of prayer; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God. If the Son of God is formed in us by regeneration, He will press forward in front of our common sense and change our attitude to the things about which we pray.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Attitude, Son

  55 Copy quote

• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

  315 Copy quote

• 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

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Powerful, Littles

  13 Copy quote

• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Prayer, Cancer

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Atheist, Two, Four

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, One Line

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.4, Ravenio Books

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Strong, Prayer, Joy

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1844). “The Story of Justin Martyr : Sabbation and Other Poems”, p.250

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Religion

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

  26 Copy quote

  Show source