Top 100 Quotes About Prayers Answered
#1. How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.
Augustus William Hare
#2. I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
Anne Lamott
#3. I started worrying that maybe you only get a certain number of prayers answered in you lifetime and I'm burning through mine too fast. I'd hate to find out later on that I used up all my chits, because I've been acting like I've got an unlimited supply.
Jeff Kinney
#4. Some people just don't seem to realize, when they're moaning about not getting prayers answered, that no is the answer.
Nelia Gardner White
#5. If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
Wally Lamb
#6. If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#7. I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll
#8. If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.
Billy Graham
#9. if we have any unforgiveness, bitterness, selfishness, pride, anger, irritation, or resentment in our hearts, our prayers will not be answered.
Stormie O'martian
#12. I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching those guys and often wondered early on in my career if I would ever have the chance to play for the Atlanta Braves, and there it was. God kind of answered my prayers.
Tim Hudson
#13. The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham
#14. Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.
Lisa Wingate
#16. Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Douglas Coupland
#17. Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.
Tony Robbins
#19. Live as if your prayers are to be answered.
Wayne Dyer
#20. Sarah and Michael shared many happy years together. On their seventh anniversary, their prayers were answered with the birth of a son, Stephen. Stephen was followed by Luke, Lydia, and Esther.
Francine Rivers
#21. you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
C.S. Lewis
#23. Arya did not know any Many-Faced God, but if he answered prayers, he might be the god she sought.
George R R Martin
#24. When your prayers aren't answered immediately, sometimes God has a different - or better - plan.
Jim George
#27. Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#29. God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.
Davis Bunn
#31. The fresh, pungent summer smells of the forest bring me home to the natural, forgotten spiritual place deep inside me. The part of me where hope lives, where prayers are answered and life feels good.
Vanessa G. Foster
#32. God had not answered her mother's prayers and she doubted He would answer hers.
Sarah E. Ladd
#33. If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?
Dave Willis
#34. Since the sum of her experience had told her that the majority of one's prayers to God were not answered, she prayed now directly to us, she called upon the Devil, she implored him.
Norman Mailer
#37. And it had come from God, she was certain, for He answered most of her prayers that way. Unobtrusively. Quietly.
Lawana Blackwell
#38. What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#39. What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#40. God has always heard and answered the prayer of all who cry on Him and call His name.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. 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
#42. I believe in miracles ... prayers that are answered and healing hands.
John McLeod
#44. Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
Wilbur Smith
#46. Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.
Nike Thaddeus
#47. Your prayers will certainly be answered. Everyone who asks receives.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#48. All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
#50. Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
Oswald Chambers
#53. Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.
William Wake
#54. More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Truman Capote
#57. All prayers that beseech the mercy of God are finally and fully answered in that suffering Servant Whom God sent, Jesus Christ. We, even our desires, are saved because HE was bruised.
Jen Pollock Michel
#58. What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and I know in my life my prayers have been answered.
John Assaraf
#59. A coward cannot have any prayer answered.
Nichiren
#60. What we receive from God always seems to be too little for us; we get the impression that He isn't answering us. But in actual fact God always answers our prayers
Sunday Adelaja
#61. When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#63. If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.
Stormie O'martian
#64. This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
Bill Rancic
#65. Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn't know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets ... and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.
Billy Graham
#67. You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that, then you have "rights." God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don't need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.
Timothy Keller
#68. I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.
Jack Dempsey
#69. Daily communication with God must be desired and pursued above all other things.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#70. What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
Sitting Bull
#73. Prayers are answered when the individual's subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or thought in his or her mind. This
Joseph Murphy
#75. Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.
Edgar Cayce
#76. Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart.
Robin Bertram
#77. ...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...
Mark Batterson
#78. Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
Dwight L. Moody
#79. Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#81. Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the "right side" of the war, ever heard - let alone answered?
Kristina McMorris
#82. Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.
C.S. Lewis
#83. Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
Rick Warren
#84. What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.
Stormie O'martian
#85. Be mindful of the prayers you send
pray hard but pray with care
for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers
letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around
so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down
Nick Cave
#86. 100 percent of the prayers I don't pray won't get answered.
Mark Batterson
#87. Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered - always ending with more gratitude.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#88. In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
Benjamin Franklin
#89. Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?
Julia Cameron
#90. As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.
James E. Faust
#91. Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!
Diane Chamberlain
#92. Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
William Feather
#93. I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
David Wilkerson
#94. Prayers are answered in one of four ways," she said. "Yes. No. I have
something else in mind. And ... "
She paused long enough for my impatience to show. "And what's the
fourth answer?"
"Wait," she said.
Megan McCafferty
#95. If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
George MacDonald
#96. If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Jack Dunphy
#98. I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
George Muller
#99. Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#100. If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.
David G. McAfee
