Prayers Not Being Answered Quotes - Page 3

• Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Atheist, Two, Four

  Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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• I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Able, Hours

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• Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Thinking, Suffering

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Silence, Secret

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.159, Paulist Press

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• The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Men, Religion

  Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

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• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, One Line

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.4, Ravenio Books

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• Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

  Andy Murray

  Christian, Prayer, Hearing

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• Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, People, Christian Inspirational

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• Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Blessing, Opportunity

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

  William Wake

  Prayer, Might, Reason

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• The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Christian, Prayer, Achievement

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.11, CCEL

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• You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

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• We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that we are not always strong, That we are ever overborne with care, That we should ever weak or heartless be, Anxious or troubled, when with us is prayer, And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Strong, Prayer, Joy

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1844). “The Story of Justin Martyr : Sabbation and Other Poems”, p.250

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• Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

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

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  John Bunyan

  Love, Christian, Peace

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• Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus Christ, Answers To Prayer, God Answers Prayers

  John Bunyan (1869). “The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author”, p.16

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• Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Sacrifice, Soul

  John Bunyan (1872). “The Complete Works of John Bunyan”, p.80

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• Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Eloquence, Compunction

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 458), 1895.

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• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Attitude, Good Christian

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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