Unanswered Quotes:

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

topic: Prayer, Needs, Unanswered

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

- Rick Warren

source: "The Most Important Interview I’ve Ever Done". pastors.com. September 18, 2013.

topic: Walking With God, Walks, Unanswered

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

- Bill Johnson

topic: Prayer, Want, Unanswered, Answered Prayers, Unanswered Prayers

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Answers, Findings, Unanswered

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

- Garth Brooks

source: Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990

topic: Happiness, Heartbroken, Spiritual, Unanswered, Unanswered Prayers

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Unanswered Questions, Trust In God, Unanswered

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Life Lesson, Believe, Memorial, Unanswered, Personal Dignity

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer, Unanswered, Prayers Not Being Answered

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

- Phillip Noyce

topic: Opportunity, Volcanoes, Unanswered Questions, Unanswered

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Prayer, Humility, Catholic, Unanswered, Prayers Not Being Answered

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

- Maya Angelou

source: Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.20, Modern Library

topic: Hero, Men, Race, Unanswered

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

- Anna Julia Cooper

topic: Girl, Ambitious, Beckoning, Unanswered

An unanswered question is a fine traveling companion. It sharpens your eye for the road.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

source: Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.205, Penguin

topic: Eye, Unanswered Questions, Fine, Unanswered

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

- David Wilkerson

topic: Prayer, Believe, Gone, Unanswered

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

- Willie Brown

topic: Lying, Political, Hours, Unanswered

Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

- Frank Herbert

source: "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

topic: Blow, Knives, Decision, Cleavage, Unanswered

Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

- Ivars Peterson

topic: Islands, Pieces, Unanswered Questions, Unanswered, Theorems

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Mean, Thinking, Unanswered Questions, Unanswered

In studies asking why young people left their family religion, their most frequent response was unanswered doubts and questions. The researchers were surprised: They expected to hear stories of broken relationships and wounded feelings. But the top reason given by young adults was that they did not get answers to their questions.

- Nancy Pearcey

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Asking Why, People, Broken, Unanswered, Broken Relationship

The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.

- Reuven Rivlin

topic: Pain, Heart, Racism, Unanswered

If the United States had not intervened in Afghanistan, then obviously, we would have then allowed the attacks of 9/11 to go unanswered. I don't think most of Americans wanted that to happen.

- John McCain

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Thinking, United States, Afghanistan, Unanswered

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

topic: Spiritual, Anxiety, Insecurity, Unanswered

There are still so many unanswered questions about what causes autism and other developmental disorders on the spectrum. So it is vital that we continue to research and educate ourselves in the hopes that we may begin to understand the challenges that these children and their families continue to face with each passing day.

- Manny Alvarez

topic: Children, Autism, Challenges, Unanswered

There are certain parts of chords that resolve things and tie a bow, and others that keep things open and unanswered.

- Feist

source: Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

topic: Ties, Bows, Chords, Unanswered

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

- Rex Stout

topic: Book, Home, Hands, Detective Stories, Unanswered

People sometimes ask me, "You're still in a primary - why are you criticizing [Donald] Trump?" It's because I don't want what he's saying to stand unanswered.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: People, Want, Sometimes, Unanswered

We are waiting for Donald Trump`s big immigration speech. There are lots of unanswered questions that remain about where exactly Trump stands on deportation forces, on what to do with the millions of immigrants who are here illegally now, and where he stands on the question of birthright citizenship.

- Steve Kornacki

topic: Waiting, Deportation, Immigration, Unanswered

I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Source: www.independent.ie

topic: Girl, Boys, Fire, Lighting A Fire, Unanswered

I tried not to write about the O.J. Simpson case too much because so much has already been said about it, but there are a lot of questions left worth asking. However, the case is very useful to illustrate other points. The case is a common reference point because everybody knows the ins and outs of it, more than any other case in this generation, so it becomes useful to reference other points. In itself, there aren't that many questions about it that remain unanswered.

- Bill James

source: "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

topic: Unanswered

Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.

- Thomas Sowell

topic: Mistake, Believe, Government, Unanswered, Role Of Government

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Spiritual, Goal, Purpose, Unanswered

I talk to myself on paper about my characters - sometimes writing in first person... I keep lists of unanswered questions that I can always turn to in order to get myself going.

- Phyllis A. Whitney

topic: Writing, Character, Order, Unanswered

If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you're going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least.

- Martin Amis

source: "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

topic: Strong, Unanswered Questions, Lasts, Unanswered

You have to believe in the arthouse, if you will - the emotion, the conflict, the who am I, which will always be an unanswered question. If you do it right, you have a smaller drama, and a great movie.

- Avi Arad

source: Source: www.denofgeek.com

topic: Drama, Believe, Unanswered Questions, Unanswered

One unanswered question is whether a Euro-Islam that combines Islam with democracy will be possible in the future. We mustn't confuse desire with reality.

- Walter Kasper

topic: Reality, Islam, Democracy, Unanswered

Calls ignored, texts unanswered, short replies, excuses made. All I can say is don't be surprised when you're not in my future.

- Behdad Sami

topic: Ignored, Excuse, Made, Unanswered

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

topic: People, Demand, Dishes, Unanswered

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

- Steve Allen

source: Steve Allen, Jane Wollman (1992). “How to be funny: discovering the comic you”

topic: Laughter, Eye, Arms, Unanswered, Respiratory

Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

- Seth Klarman

topic: Safety, Perfect, Decision, Incomplete Information, Unanswered

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

topic: Prayer, Character, Promise, Unanswered, Delayed

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don't recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.

- Lisa Unger

topic: Philosophy, Giving, Forever, Unanswered

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that prayers are answered rightly because of the heavenly Father's wisdom: “Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him”.

- Oswald Chambers

source: "Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character".

topic: Prayer, Father, Taught, Unanswered, Unanswered Prayers

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

- David Levithan

source: David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.181, Macmillan

topic: Phones, Long, Waiting, Letting Things Go, Unanswered

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

- Nora Roberts

topic: Regret, Guilt, Unanswered Questions, Unanswered, Shannon

There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Writing, Eye, Pockets, What Is The Purpose Of Life, Unanswered

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

source: George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13

topic: Patience, Art, Prayer, Unanswered, Unanswered Prayers

If there are questions that are unanswered by research, they will be answered by a strategy division, a data-mining group or someone else within the organization. We need to be more effective at collaborating with these groups.

- Stephen Jin-Woo Kim

topic: Business, Data, Organization, Collaborating, Unanswered

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

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Thinking, Unanswered

Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in respect to the mutual relations of matter and spirit, of nature and of God.

- Noah Porter

topic: Nature, Unanswered Questions, Pages, Unanswered

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

- F.B. Meyer

topic: Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is, Inspirational Prayer, Unanswered

He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

- Mitch Albom

source: Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

topic: Prayer, Pain, Thinking, Unanswered, Unanswered Prayers