Unanswered Quotes

• 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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• Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

  Joel Osteen

  Unanswered Questions, Trust In God

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer

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• Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life Lesson, Believe, Memorial

  Tennessee Williams (1978). “Where I Live: Selected Essays”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

  Phillip Noyce

  Opportunity, Volcanoes, Stories

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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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• I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, Ambitious, Unanswered Questions

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

  Maya Angelou

  Hero, Men, Race

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

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• I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

  David Wilkerson

  Prayer, Believe, Gone

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• An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Eye, Unanswered Questions, Fine

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.205, Penguin

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• In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

  Willie Brown

  Lying, Political, Politics

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Knives, Decision

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

  Ivars Peterson

  Islands, Ontology, May

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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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• If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.

  Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

  Business, Data, Organization

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• There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Eye, Pockets

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• Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

  Nora Roberts

  Regret, Guilt, Unanswered Questions

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

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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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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• To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

  Joan Didion

  Running, Lying, Home

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Jul 14, 2011

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• If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.

  John McCain

  Thinking, United States, Afghanistan

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Waiting, Unanswered Questions

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• One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

  Dan Brown

  Arguing, Certain, Left

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• Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Prayer, Fall, Godly

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.219, Penguin

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• I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Car, What If

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.316, Penguin

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