Top 100 Prayer Answer Quotes
#1. Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
Pat Robertson
#2. If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.
Robert E. Murray
#3. God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#4. You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet, but presently you will.
Oswald Chambers
#5. When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#6. Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.
Robin Jones Gunn
#7. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
James Van Praagh
#8. All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
Isaac Newton
#9. There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!
Christine Caine
#10. When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.
Michele Bachmann
#11. Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer - good, honest, noble work.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#12. What is essential in prayer is not that we learn to express ourselves, but that we learn to answer God.
Timothy Keller
#13. Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.
Monica Johnson
#14. God can even affect the mind of a heathen ruler, and this he can do in answer to prayer without in the least overturning his free agency or forcing his will.
E. M. Bounds
#15. The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.
William Carey
#16. Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
Charles Grandison Finney
#17. Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed.
Douglas Wood
#18. God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.
Max Lucado
#19. Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!
Evinda Lepins
#20. Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#21. He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.
Alexander MacLaren
#22. If I am inclined to doubt, steady my faith; if I am tempted, make me strong to resist; if I should miss the mark, give me courage to try again. Guide me with the light of truth and grant me wisdom by which I may understand the answer to my prayer.
Ronie Kendig
#23. Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
Dora Russell
#24. My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
Mother Teresa
#25. If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.
Jim Cymbala
#26. When your prayers aren't answered immediately, sometimes God has a different - or better - plan.
Jim George
#27. The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.
John R. Rice
#28. Mutual respect, the soft answer, financial honesty with the Lord, prayer. "I do not hesitate to promise that if you will go to your homes and cultivate and nurture it among these four cornerstones, your lives will be happy."
Gordon B. Hinckley
#29. Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
Mark Batterson
#30. The study of God requires intellectual effort, historical imagination, empathic energy, and participation in a vital community of prayer (Augustine, Answer to Skeptics).
Thomas C. Oden
#31. Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.
Robert Breault
#32. As in the old Irish blessing, may God give you, for every storm, a rainbow; for every tear, a smile. For every care, a promise; a blessing for every trial. For every problem life sends, a faithful friend to share; for every sigh, a sweet song, and an answer for every prayer.
Sandra D. Bricker
#33. We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.
Jewel
#34. God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#35. Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer ... He may sometimes keep us long waiting ... but He will never send us empty away.
J.C. Ryle
#37. Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.
Elizabeth George
#38. Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.
Felix Wantang
#40. Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance.
Jeff Cohen
#41. Rick Perry said Obama's suggestions for gun control disgust him. He said the real answer to this problem isn't laws, it's prayer. You know, i know you're not supposed to say this about elected officials, but I would pay to see Rick Perry defend himself against a school shooter with prayer.
Bill Maher
#43. As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
Greg Laurie
#44. I thank God that He didn't answer Jesus' prayer in the garden - otherwise I'd still be on the hook for my own salvation.
Jared Brock
#45. My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#46. Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying.
Watchman Nee
#47. Too often they tell me to answer my doubts with prayer, which seems very much like addressing one's hunger by thinking of food.
Dave Eggers
#48. A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night.
Carew Papritz
#49. Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer!
Mark Batterson
#50. God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#51. There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
Oswald Chambers
#52. The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
John Calvin
#54. Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
Anne Lamott
#55. God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
Oswald Chambers
#56. You're the answer to the prayer she no longer has the faith to speak.
Sophia French
#57. Some people think God should in some way come to you and assist you, should answer your prayers. Why? It exists in perfect ecstasy beyond the dualistic consciousness. It's totally oblivious to you. It has no interest in your life or your death - it doesn't matter.
Frederick Lenz
#58. My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
Francis Chan
#59. What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
Thomas Merton
#60. I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
Mark Twain
#62. Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.
Leonard Ravenhill
#63. Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.
Jerry Bridges
#64. Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming to God for the fulfillment of His will, coming to a God who delights to answer prayer.
John F. Walvoord
#65. God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn't always answer the way we want him to.
Shirley Corder
#66. If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
William Temple
#67. The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.
Oswald Chambers
#68. We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.
Rich Mullins
#69. Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.
Bryant McGill
#70. Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord'
John Of Kronstadt
#71. Then there came a vision to me, a vision that was sent in answer to my prayer, or, perchance, it was a madness born of my sorrows.
H. Rider Haggard
#73. Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.
David Wilkerson
#74. In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.
John F. Walvoord
#75. We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.
Janette Oke
#76. The highest form of worship is to answer God's prayer.
Agona Apell
#77. I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.
Susan Olsen
#78. We can recognize that instead of lashing back, the best answer is turning the other cheek. This may be easy for some, but for others - especially those who have been deeply hurt - abandoning the urge to inflict injury will require spiritual strength, prayer, and self-control.
Anonymous
#80. If you seek His help, be sure your life is clean, your motives are worthy, and you're willing to do what He asks-for He will answer your prayers. He is your loving Father; you are His beloved child. He loves you perfectly and wants to help you.
Richard G. Scott
#81. You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.
Caroline Myss
#82. Faith
I whisper your name like a prayer - with all the hope of heaven.
I trace the lines of your palm and draw a map to salvation.
I hear the knock of your heart and I answer it like my calling.
Lang Leav
#83. Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you.
Diogenes
#84. Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can't believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.
Pat Schneider
#85. There are three answers to prayer: yes, no, and wait a while. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
Ruth Stafford Peale
#86. Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.
John G. Lake
#87. What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done by your feeble arms!? ANSWER ME! He can take down the iron curtain in a day, He CAN convert a nation in an hour. Call upon Him, believe Him.
Paul Washer
#90. We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.
Saint John Chrysostom
#92. Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
Oswald Chambers
#93. In prayer, God doesn't guarantee the answer you want, but He does guarantee the answer you need.
Todd Stocker
#94. I'm screwed," Eric repeats, and shakes his head. "I have to go. Take care of her, okay?"
He gives Delia to me as if she were a jewel to be smuggled, a prayer to be whispered between heretics. A pawn. Eric is halfway across the parking lot by the time I answer. "I always do," I say.
Jodi Picoult
#95. Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)
Janice Hanna
#96. God answers every prayer, Rabbi Schumann once told him, years ago. Mostly His answer is 'no'.
Paul Russell
#97. The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden and seemingly dead and lost, is nevertheless taking root for a later spring and harvest.
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
#98. For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it. Make thy wants known to Him. Live as if ye expected them to be answered. For He has given, What ye ask in my name, believing, that will my Father in heaven give to thee.
Edgar Cayce
#99. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
#100. So all through the Scriptures you will find that when believing prayer went up to God, the answer came down.
D.L. Moody