Quotes About Prayer

Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.

There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.

God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.

When I have a problem I pray about it and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.

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

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

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.

God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.

My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am.

The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.

God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.

Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.

Whatever things ye desire when ye pray believe that you receive them and ye shall have them.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."

In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.

Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.