Answered Prayer Quotes

The miracle of the moment! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. ~ Edgar Cayce

The Lord God knows exact when to act. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My life is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for guidance given marvelously, for errors and dangers averted, for enmity to the Gospel subdued, for food provided at the exact hour needed, for everything that goes to make up life and my poor service. I can testify, with a full and often wonder-stricken awe, that I believe God answers prayer. ~ Mary Slessor

And when Mary nodded, Pauline said, "You'd better hurry then, you know how how is," and laughed to show she would not be married to bald John Keane for all the tea in China. In her laugh was every confidence Mary had ever shared with Pauline about her husband's failings, every unguarded criticism, every angry, impromptu, frustrated critique of his personality, his manners, his sometimes morbid, sometimes inscrutable, sometimes impatient ways. A repository, Pauline and her laugh, for every moment in thier marriage when Mary Keane had not loved her husband, when love itself had seemed a misapprehension, a delusion (a stranger standing outside of Schrafft's transformed into an answered prayer), and marriage
which Pauline had had sense enough to spurn
simply an awkward pact with a stranger, any stranger, John or George, Tom, Dick, or Harry.
A repository, Pauline and her laugh, her knowing eye, for all that Mary Keane should have kept to herself. ~ Alice McDermott

O Lord saves us from overworking!
Grant us grace to rest awhile. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Desire, Believe, Receive! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every quarter of a century an angel has touched one candle. Every prayer that was offered over the candle was answered. The Christmas Candle has become legendary. ~ Max Lucado

These incidents of answered prayer are not more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the world over could testify to, but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God. ~ Rosalind Goforth

I was once in darkness, but now, I see a bright light on my path. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With much prayer comes great grace from God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I cannot imagine how hard it must be for you. Just be strong a little longer. Pray to God, and you will see that He will answer you. I pray for you every night... just as I taught you to do. ~ Abbas Kazerooni

Hope is a gracious expectation. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What I have learned from the year past is something about miracles
miracles of healing and answered prayer and unexpected happy endings. Each came quietly and simply, on tiptoe, so that I hardly knew it had occurred.
All this makes me realize that miracles are everyday things. Not only the sudden, great good fortune, wafting in on a new wind from the sky. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same.
Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn't know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle. ~ Faith Baldwin

Do not worry! The Almighty God knows all your need. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because you think clearly doesn't mean you talk to God." "Aha!" Vetra exclaimed. "And yet remarkable solutions to seemingly impossible problems often occur in these moments of clarity. It's what gurus call higher consciousness. Biologists call it altered states. Psychologists call it super-sentience." He paused. "And Christians call it answered prayer. ~ Dan Brown

Lord I thank you for the timely provisions ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever shall call on God, shall be saved. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest patient is to wait for God to act. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't. ~ Max Lucado

Perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer. ~ Hortense Calisher

All great dreamers have great faith. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No one preached to me ... No one had to ... I wouldn't have listened anyway. I became a believer from a direct encounter with an answered prayer. I came face to face with God and all his power in a tiny bathroom in Washington. ~ Jacci Mendelsohn

Oh what marvels fill me with thanksgiving!
The deep mahogany of a leaf once green. The feathered fronds of tiny icicles coating every twig and branch in a wintry landscape. The feel of goosebumps thawing after endured frozen temperatures. Both hands clamped around a hot mug of herbal tea. The aromatic whiff of mint under my nose. The stir of emotion from a child's cry for mommy. A gift of love detached of strings. Spotted lilies collecting raindrops in a cupped clump of petals. The vibrant mélange of colors on butterfly wings. The milky luster of a single pearl. Rainbows reflecting off iridescence bubbles. Awe-struck silence evoked by any form of beauty.
Avocado flecks in your eyes.
Warm hands on my face.
Sweetness on the tongue.
The harmony of voices.
An answered prayer.
A pink balloon.
A caress.
A smile.
More.
These have become my treasures
by virtue of thanksgiving. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The knowledge of our union with Christ ... gives us confidence in prayer. It was when Jesus had begun to expound the closeness of this union that he also began to introduce the disciples to the true heart of prayer. If Christ abides in us and we abide in him, as his word dwells in us, and we pray in his name, that God hears us (Jn 15:4-7). But all of these expressions are simply extensions of the one fundamental idea: If I am united to Christ, then all that is his is mine. So long as my heart, will and mind are one with Christ's in his word, I can approach God with the humble confidence that my prayers will be heard and answered. ~ Sinclair B. Ferguson

Live as if your prayers are to be answered. ~ Wayne Dyer

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered. ~ Mary Szybist

Prayer define the sacred beauties of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

We humble ourselves under the mighty grace of the Creator. He will deliver us from every chain and oppression. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered. ~ Augustus William Hare

The streaming wounds of Jesus are the sure guarantees for answered prayer. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

God hears and answers every prayer in His sacred time. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord has heard your cries. He will help you. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God redeem mankind. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It does not matter how long it takes. God will fulfil the promises. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered. ~ Gregg Braden

Every perfect gift comes from the great God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is the key that unlocks all doors. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We hope to receive what we long for. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have to be in hurry in life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered? ~ Sitting Bull

Hope is a gaze on a higher power to meet our every need. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is never complete until God has answered. ~ Woodrow M. Kroll

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray. ~ Conrad Hilton

Step number one to receiving answered prayer is decide what you want from God and find the scripture or scriptures that definitely promise you these things. ~ Kenneth E. Hagin

Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered. ~ Tony Robbins

God turned the adversity into a blessing. What a divine intervention? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God can cure any illness. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am blessed with 365 days of thanksgiving and answered prayer. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With the grace of prayer, we shall prevail. ~ Lailah Gifty, Akita

God hears and answers every prayer. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his. ~ Dillon Burroughs

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary. ~ Samuel Marinus Zwemer

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

You enlighten the light of love in my life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To behold the glory of Jesus means that we begin to find Christ beautiful for who he is in himself. It means a kind of prayer in which we are not simply coming to him to get his forgiveness, his help for our needs, his favor and blessing. Rather, the consideration of his character, words, and work on our behalf becomes inherently satisfying, enjoyable, comforting, and strengthening.289 Owen insisted that it was crucial that Christians be enabled to do this. He reasoned that if the beauty and glory of Christ do not capture our imaginations, dominate our waking thought, and fill our hearts with longing and desire - then something else will. We will be "continually ruminating" on something or some things as our hope and joy. Whatever those things are, they will "frame our souls" and "transform us into their likeness." If we don't behold the glory of God in the face of Christ, then something else will rule our lives. We will be slaves.290 ~ Timothy Keller

He said, "Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer."
"Baptism is a prayer."
"No," he said. "Baptism is a what I'd call a fact. ~ Marilynne Robinson

The people, especially in the villages, know nothing at all of Christian doctrine; and many pastors are sadly unfit and incompetent to teach. Yet all are called Christians, have been baptized, and enjoy the use of the Sacrament, although they know neither the Lord's Prayer, nor the Creed, nor the Ten Commandments ... ~ Martin Luther

The aspirations and expectations of a virtuous people, environed with so wise, so liberal, so deep, so broad, and so high a charter of equal rights as appears in said Constitution, ought to be treated by those to whom the administration of the laws is entrusted with as much sanctity as the prayers of the Saints are treated in heaven, that love, confidence, and union, like the sun, moon, and stars, should bear witness, ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or a prayer - and don't think 'I'm an entrepreneur so I have to take risks'. Entrepreneurs don't take risks. They take calculated risks; only the good ones. ~ Theo Paphitis

1Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer. 2From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to the rock that is higher than ~ Anonymous

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly. ~ Richard Ben-Veniste

Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again. ~ Pooja Ruprell

True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little of the sham. If we would learn the wondrous power of prayer, we must not give a fragment here and there - A little talk with Jesus, as the tiny saintlets sing - but we must demand and hold with an iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer, or there will be no praying worth the name. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

I may distance myself from God from time to time, wandering off in the ignorance of my self-absorbed preoccupations and attitudes
But God is never far off. Never distant.
Never remote.
He is close enough to hear the raw, unbridled "fuck" in my silent prayer of anguish.
Close enough to feel the groaning angst and tension in my gut that oft threatens to rend me to pieces.
Close enough to hear my heart slam itself in abandon against the walls of this temple of skin in holy desperation; clutching at the veil that dulls and distorts my vision.
Close enough to catch me as I stumble in my blind and weary state yet again and again and again.
Yes, He is close. She is never far off. God is my faithful friend and traveling companion, though I see Him not yet with these orbs of flesh. ~ Mac MacKenzie

Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer ~ Neal Pirolo

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved. ~ Samuel Butler

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer. ~ John Michael Talbot

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense. ~ Teresa Of Avila

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe. ~ Mac Thornberry

I've heard it said that prayer is the act of talking to God, while meditation is the act of listening. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Familiarity with the secret place is familiarity with the glory place. Abide in his presence. ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there. ~ Doreen Virtue

Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. ~ Ole Hallesby

Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment. ~ Ariana Carruth

The most powerful power, you can possess is grace of prayer. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. ~ Kevin DeYoung

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends. ~ John Piper

Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about miracles, I mean, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins. ~ Richard Dawkins

I used to think like that at school," Sabriel answered. "Dreaming about the Old Kingdom. Proper Charter Magic. Dead to bind. Princes to be
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"Rescued? ~ Garth Nix

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered. ~ Steven Erikson

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer. ~ W. H. Auden

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation. ~ Rick Warren

Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which conveys a message to a stranger. ~ G.C. Waldrep III

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully. ~ Sean Durkin

You can not have peace with just feelings. It comes only about by prayer and being on the journey. Like the wise men, find your peace this Christmas. ~ Phil Mitchell

Aunt Emily says grown-ups never really like playing. They do it to please us."

"They little know," Gerald answered, "how often we do it to please them. ~ E. Nesbit

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy and sinless, He is a just judge of evil and the enemy of all disobedience. But a brother is sinful as we are. He knows from his own experience the dark night of secret sin. Why should we not find it easier to go to a brother than to the holy God? But if we do, we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of sin to God, whether we have not rather been confessing our sins to ourselves and also granting ourselves absolution ... Who can give us the certainty that, in the confession and the forgiveness of our sins, we are not dealing with ourselves but with the living God? God gives us this certainty through our brother. Our brother breaks the circle of self-deception. A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Tom Hyde, the tinker, standing on the gallows, was asked if he had anything to say. "Tell the tailors," said he, "to remember to make a knot in their thread before they take the first stitch." His companion's prayer is forgotten. ~ Henry David Thoreau

We give to God of our strength, not our weakness. But we also say: "Da lifneh mi ata omed" - Know before whom you stand. We know what we are in the face of that. We see the full picture - God and ourselves. We cannot see ourselves as more than we are because we see how much greater is the reality. But we must not lessen our value in our own eyes either, because we are a necessary part of this reality. It is no small thing that we are able to "stand" and to address that reality.
It would be good if we could approach life the way we approach prayer, knowing before whom we stand. ~ Ovadya Ben Malka

Have you seen your sin in light of the Law of God? Do you understand in your heart of hearts that if every secret sin is manifest on the Day of Wrath and if justice had its way, you would fall like lightning into hell? Have you fallen prostrate in the blood-soaked earth at the foot of the cross? Have you pictured Jesus Christ crucified? Have you seen the precious blood pouring from His hands and His feet, and cried, "For me He dies"? If you have, horror mingled with unspeakable gratitude will drive you to your knees, and you will whisper, "Oh, God, because You did that for me, I will do anything for You!" This zeal for God will produce in you a zeal for the lost. Remember that whispered prayer of surrender the next time you fear hollers at you as you hand someone a tract. ~ Ray Comfort

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own ... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual. ~ Dick Gephardt

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer. ~ Paul E. Miller

Have you ever thought about Jesus' physical appearance? If you think about the paintings, he was a relatively handsome Dutchman. But if you think about a prophetic description, "he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). To put it diplomatically, he didn't look like much, and sleepless nights filled with prayer vigils probably didn't help. ~ Edward T. Welch

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell. ~ John Bunyan

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you're never going to be as you should be. ~ Brennan Manning