Mary Baker Eddy Quotes

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

I really believe that God puts things in front of you for a reason, even if you don't always appreciate it in the moment.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

We know little of the things for which we pray.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.