The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' — Sigmund Freud
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. — Voltaire
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question. — Ronald Reagan
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. — Isaac Newton
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. — John F. Kennedy
Short Answers Quotes
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. — Dorothy Day
When the solution is simple, God is answering. — Albert Einstein
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer. — Ed Cunningham
If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers... — Nas
Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity. — Otto von Bismarck
The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived. — Marilyn Monroe
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face. — Ronald Reagan
War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate — Marvin Gaye
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. — Harvey S. Firestone
The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask. — Thomas Kuhn
I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer. — Woody Allen
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car. — Jack Lemmon
Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question. — James Turrell
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. — Andrew Murray
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer — Terence McKenna
Knowledge is having the right answer. Intelligence is asking the right questions.
Thankful Answered Prayer Quotes
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. — Jean Ingelow
Thank God for 9/11. Thank God that, five years ago, the wrath of God was poured out upon this evil nation. America, land of the sodomite damned. We thank thee, Lord God Almighty, for answering the prayers of those that are under the altar. — Fred Phelps
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.
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
It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more. — Ole Hallesby
Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be. — Greg Laurie
My Answered Prayer Quotes
God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times! — Ruth Graham
I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. — Jack Dempsey
I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him. — Stormie Omartian
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration with exposition needs a great push. People ask me: 'What will convert America and save the world?' My answer is prayer. What we need is for every parish to come before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in holy hours of prayer. — Mother Teresa
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified. — George Muller
If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer. — James Van Praagh
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
It's when things are going just right that you'd better be suspicious. There you are, fat as can be. The whole world is yours and you're the answer to the Wright brothers' prayers. You say to yourself, nothing can go wrong ... all my trespasses are forgiven. Best you not believe it. — Ernest K. Gann
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things. — Oswald Chambers
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered? — Sitting Bull
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer. — Francis Chan
God Answered Prayer Quotes
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
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. — Anselm of Canterbury
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. — John Bunyan
There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. — John G. Lake
Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. — John G. Lake
The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer. — R. A. Torrey
Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.
You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun. — Josemaria Escriva
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you. — Diogenes
Answers To Prayer Quotes
Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself. — Kathryn Kuhlman
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time. — John Piper
When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan
Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer. — David Wilkerson
Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others. — Michael E. DeBakey
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. — Leonard Ravenhill
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy. — Corrie Ten Boom
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it. — Brother Lawrence
The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed. — William Carey
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. — Ellen G. White
God Answers Prayers Quotes
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows. — J. D. Greear
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers? — Orson Scott Card
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement. — Jacques Ellul
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. — Richard Alleine
God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver. — Charles Stanley
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald Chambers
God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord' — John of Kronstadt
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings. — Phillips Brooks
Prayers Not Being Answered Quotes
What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done by your feeble arms!? ANSWER ME! He can take down the iron curtain in a day, He CAN convert a nation in an hour. Call upon Him, believe Him. — Paul Washer
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved. — Charles Spurgeon
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. — William J. McGill
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. — Francois FeNelon
Ask and it shall be given you; Seek and ye shall find; Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveth; And he that seeketh, Findeth; and to him that knocketh It shall be opened. Aspire not to have more, but to be more. — Oscar Romero
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — Arthur Tappan Pierson
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him. — John Climacus
Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer. — Ole Hallesby
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. — George Macdonald
Unanswered Prayers Quotes
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
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks
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
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
It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there. — Mitch Albom
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
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — Mother Theresa
Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us. — Bill Johnson
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. — Mother Teresa
Prayer Changes Things Quotes
I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things. — Mother Teresa
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. — John Bunyan
The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray. — Chuck Smith
Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer. — R. A. Torrey
Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails. — Watchman Nee
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. — Corrie Ten Boom
I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control. — Sayings
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. — Sam Shoemaker
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. — R. C. Sproul
Power Of Prayer Quotes
Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart. — Maximilian Kolbe
We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. — R. A. Torrey
Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth. — Andrew Murray
You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse. — David Yonggi Cho
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy — Joseph Murphy
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. — Franklin Graham
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life. — Dallas Willard
We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen
Prayer Is Powerful Quotes
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther
Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom. — Mary Slessor
Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. — Wesley L Duewel
We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings. — Andrew Wommack
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help. — Thomas Keating
Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God. — Jane Frances de Chantal
. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way. — Emmet Fox
Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out. — Richard Halverson
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things; the simplest and the sublimest; the weakest and the most powerful; its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" — Al-Ghazali
I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right, every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. — Meek Mill
It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others. — Terry Fox
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