Unanswered Prayer Quotes & Sayings

For our sins, He suffered beneath the burden of that unanswered prayer."1 Here — Richard J. Foster

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

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi

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

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse. — Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

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

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

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

Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things. — Brian Tracy

The law demands good works and uses its terror
rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.
as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis
not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received. — Richard Jordan

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

He's not my warlock. — Cassandra Clare

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

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would. — Graham Parker

Thank God for unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks

As I look back on my life, I understand now that there were some very important moments when my unanswered prayer was actually God's greatest blessing — Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required. — Philip Yancey

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us. — Bill Johnson

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is. — Gerald L. Sittser

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer

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

Life is much more enjoyable when you're surrounded by people who just accept you for you. — Priscilla Glenn

If your prayers remain unanswered, start fasting — Sunday Adelaja

Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems. — Judith Faulkner

The room didn't contain a large jar as Landen had suggested, but rather a human-size sarcophagus made out of Tupperware to ensure freshness. — Jasper Fforde

There is a terrible divine necessity about redemptive suffering. God is doing something so ultimately wonderful that unanswered prayer is the necessary price of achieving it, and Job begins to experience this. His prayers will be answered, but only when his sufferings have achieved that for which God purposes them. In a deeper way it was the same for Jesus Christ. In a similar way it is yet the same for Christian people today; when God remains silent in answer to our urgent cries, it is not that he does not hear, but rather that it is somehow necessary for us to cry in vain and wait in hope until he achieves in us, and in his world, what he wills to achieve. — Christopher Ash

When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of Satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason - God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you. — Oswald Chambers

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt,
Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair,
Wearied of every temple we have built,
Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer,
For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high:
One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die. — Oscar Wilde

God, why have you done this to me? My little prayer goes unanswered. — Katherine Owen

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

Thank You, Lord, that I am a child of Yours, set apart for Your glory, and that You hear my prayers. When I pray, help me to have the peace of knowing You have heard my prayer and will answer in Your way and in Your perfect timing. Show me if there is ever anything in my life that would become a barrier between me and You so that my prayers would go unanswered. — Stormie O'martian

God has determined that certain expressions of His power will only be exercised in response to prayer. Simply put, God won't do it unless you pray for it. We have not because we ask not, or maybe I should say, we have not because we circle not. The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked. — Mark Batterson

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions. — Gerald L. Sittser