Unanswered Prayers Quotes:

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

- F.B. Meyer

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

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

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

- Garth Brooks

source: Song: Unanswered Prayers

topic: Prayer, Mean, Men, Upstairs, Answered Prayers

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

- Lysa TerKeurst

source: Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

topic: Reality, Sometimes, Wonder, Unanswered Prayers

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

I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL

topic: God, Christian, Running, Prayer Meeting, Reminding

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

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

topic: Hope, Jesus, Pain, Unanswered Prayers

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Mind, Answers, Instruments Of God, God Works In Mysterious Ways

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

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

- Mother Teresa

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

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

- Shams Tabrizi

topic: Prayer, Thank God, Praise, Unanswered Prayers

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

- Bill Johnson

topic: Way, Rejoice, Discovering, Unanswered Prayers

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Sad, God, Fear, God Works In Mysterious Ways, Conversations With God

Give us this day our daily mask.

- Tom Stoppard

topic: Giving, Mask, This Day, Praying To God, Kingdom Come

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: Thinking, Comforting, Said, Little Faith, Have A Little Faith

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

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

topic: Love, Gratitude, Appreciation, Personal Tragedy, Unanswered Prayers

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Prayer, Believe, Our Prayers, God Is With You, Faith In Love

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

- Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

topic: Girl, Religious, Horse, Unanswered Prayers

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

- Satchel Paige

topic: Thank You, Thanksgiving, Baseball, Just Give Up, Strength In Hard Times

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