Quotes & Sayings About Having Your Prayers Answered

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 fifty percent 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 ... so just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself ... — George Carlin

The spirit of God is mighty upon us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. — Edgar Cayce

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

Flames burn so long as they are fed.
Rivers rage so long as it rains.
The sun rises so long as the earth rotates.
Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered sincerely.
Hope exists so long as there is a new day.
Miracles never cease so long as there is faith.
Love endures so long as kindness rules all actions.
Dreams thrive so long as they are pursued.
Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn. To give up on your dreams because one didn't come true. To lose faith in prayers because one was not answered, to give up on our efforts because one of them failed. To condemn all your friends because one betrayed you, not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful or didn't love you back. To throw away all your chances to be happy because you didn't succeed on the first attempt. I hope that as you go on your way, you don't give in nor give up! — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Prayers are answered when the individual's subconscious mind responds to the mental picture or thought in his or her mind. This — Joseph Murphy

If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered. — Toni Sorenson

Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places. — Lisa Wingate

...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers... — Mark Batterson

If your life is in disarray and you feel uncomfortable and unworthy to pray because you are not clean, don't worry. He already knows about all of that. He is waiting for you to kneel in humility and take the first few steps. Pray for strength. Pray for others to be led to support you and guide you and lift you. Pray that the love of the Savior will pour into your heart. Pray that the miracle of the Atonement will bring forgiveness because you are willing to change. I know that those prayers will be answered, for God loves you. His Son gave his life for you. I know they will help you. — Richard G. Scott

The fertile land yields its fruits in the sacred time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it?
I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating.
Where have you gone?
Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven.
I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back. — Lisa Kleypas

When i was a little boy i had a red bike, every night when I went to bed I begged God to give my bike wings so that in the morning, I could fly away. Every morning I'd crawl out of bed and run straight to the garage to see if he answered my prayers. I still have the bike. It's mire rusted than red now. But I still check. Everyday. — Tarryn Fisher

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

Faith in the Lord is trust in the Lord. We cannot have true faith in the Lord without also having complete trust in the Lord's will and in the Lord's timing. As a result, no matter how strong our faith is, it cannot produce a result contrary to the will of Him in whom we have faith. Remember that when your prayers do not seem to be answered in the way or at the time you desire. The exercise of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is always subject to the order of heaven, to the goodness and will and wisdom and timing of the Lord. When we have that kind of faith and trust in the Lord, we have true security and serenity in our lives. — Dallin H. Oaks

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. — Douglas Coupland

Prayer, divine act.
Pray always. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity. — John Shelby Spong

Prayer is the key that unlocks all doors. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered. — William Peter Blatty

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

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

With prayer of thanks, I wait in patient for God to act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before. — Harold S. Kushner

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, — Christopher Hitchens

What do you have that the Lord didn't provide?
What do you need that the Lord can't provide? — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more I pray, the more I feel God's comfort. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions. — Nike Thaddeus

Pray and mediate on the Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Everyone prays to his own god, that's why miracles happen to some and not to others — Bangambiki Habyarimana