Prayer Quotes
No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.
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.
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.
You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.
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's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
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 greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
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.
May the Lord answer you when you are in distress May the name of the God of Jacob protect you May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
Just when I need Him He is my all Answering when upon Him I call Tenderly watching lest I should fall.
The king shall joy in thy strength O Lord and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire and hast not withheld the request of his lips.
Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.
The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.
Pray because you have a Father not because it quietens you and give Him time to answer.
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.
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
God is a rich and bountiful Father and He does not forget His children nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.
Just as an earthly father knows what is best for his children's welfare so does God take into consideration the particular needs of His human family and meets them out of His wonderful storehouse.
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down.
Prayer like faith obtains promises enlarges their operation and adds to the measure of their results.
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.
