Heard Quote by Israel Shenker

“Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn’t care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers…

— John Connolly

“He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any…

— Ernest Hemingway

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened…

— Saint John Chrysostom

“Do you not pray, Miss Smallwood?' She avoided his gaze. 'No.' 'God is speaking to you every day,' he said softly. 'You might return…

— Julie Klassen

“If your prayers aren’t impossible to you, they are insulting to God.”

— Mark Batterson

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he…

— Soren Kierkegaard

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.

— Ignatius of Loyola

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

— Oswald Chambers

“The fact that you're a good listener doesn't mean pray to be mute. Speak to your situations.”

— Faithful Akpaloo

“So many prayers request catastrophe, But God opts not to listen mercifully.”

— Jawid Mojaddedi

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless,’” Arundhati Roy has said. “There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

— Alexandra Fuller

The God weve been praying to is deaf to our words and only responds to our actions.

— Steve Maraboli