Unanswered Prayers Quotes

“Sometimes you find yourself so grateful that a prayer of yours was not answered that you pray that it be ignored. Just in case it is on the waiting list of prayers to be answered.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“So many prayers request catastrophe,
But God opts not to listen mercifully.”
― Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi, Book Two

“I thank Thee that many of my prayers have been refused... I have longed for Egypt and have been given a wilderness.”
― Anonymous Puritan Prayer

“Some of the things we are trying to pray away were caused by some of our answered prayers.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Deep in his heart, Yechiel-Nachman had made peace with his prayers going unanswered. Because prayer was the pure yearning for compassion and justice, whereas life was life: cruel, dispiriting, insulting. It was therefore only natural that two such contrasting worlds could never converge.”
― Etgar Keret, Autocorrect: Stories