Top 34 Quotes About Unanswered Prayers
#1. At times, it can feel like the loneliest place on Earth, because it's just us. Alone with our unanswered prayers
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#2. Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.
Jim Carroll
#3. Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.
Bill Johnson
#4. Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
Shams Tabrizi
#5. The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don't guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.
Mark Batterson
#6. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks
#8. Like two old philosophers, Ashvin and James spoke of the ruin of their lives, their unfulfilled needs, their unanswered prayers and ultimately they were seduced by the phantom call to death by suicide its science, its poetry, its violence, its art.
Peter Akinti
#9. Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
Rick Warren
#11. More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
Truman Capote
#12. When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
#14. Even a guy like Jim Norton is clinging to his one empty tradition like anyone gives a care. My prayers for his death, as always, went unanswered.
Colin Quinn
#15. Your prayers may appear to go unanswered for many reasons. God may simply be giving you the answer that you are to wait. It could be that some sin in your life is clouding your communication with Him.
Stormie O'martian
#16. I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.
Leslie Ludy
#17. good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#18. Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
Rachel Griffiths
#19. Acting of some actors seems natural, because they have no talent.
Jules Renard
#20. I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.
David Wilkerson
#21. The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.
Fran Lebowitz
#23. The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
Mark Batterson
#24. 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
#25. Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
("The Undying Thing")
Barry Pain
#26. 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
#27. A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life.
Margaret Walker
#28. Sometimes you get so tired of each day, you wish it was over. But it just goes on and on, like the silent prayers that forever go unanswered. - excerpt from: freefalling
Darlenne Susan Girard
#29. The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
Mark Batterson
#30. He knew he lived in hell. He accepted it. He rarely complained. But truth be told, he desperately wished he could make his escape. His prayers went unanswered, and his plans for reform were almost always thwarted by something or other.
Sylvain Reynard
#31. If you're going to fall for men, or boys, then deal with the fact that you're going to be an outcast. It's not for the faint of heart, it's not for anybody hoping to be liked or respected or accepted or any of that bullshit.
Paul Russell
#32. People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.
Sonny Vaccaro
#33. I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.
Jon Lester
#34. The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers.
Robert Nye