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  • I talk to God but the sky is empty.

    Sad   God   Faith  
    Sylvia Plath (2013). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings”, p.162, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

    Patience   Art   Prayer  
    George Croly (1851). “Scenes from scripture: with other poems”, p.13
  • It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there.

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

  • 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.

    God   Faith   Prayer  
    Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.51, Discovery House
  • Give us this day our daily mask.

    Tom Stoppard (2013). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, p.31, Faber & Faber
  • Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

    Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)
  • Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

  • 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 (2004). “What on Earth Am I Here For?”
  • 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”.

    Prayer   Father   Taught  
    "Christian Disciplines: Building Strong Character".
  • More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

  • Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

    Song: Unanswered Prayers, Album: No Fences, 1990
  • There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

    Attributed in "The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes" by Carolyn Warner, 1992.
  • Thank God for unanswered prayers.

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

    Prayer   Mean   Men  
    Song: Unanswered Prayers
  • Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

  • 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.

    Prayer   Pain   Thinking  
    Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion
  • 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.

    God   Christian   Running  
    Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.26, CCEL
  • One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

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

    Faith   Prayer   Believe  
  • Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

    Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.40, Zondervan
  • The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

  • 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.

    Hope   Jesus   Pain  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016
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