Quotes about Trust
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.
— Oswald Chambers
When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.
— William Temple
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.
— Oswald Chambers
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.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
— Anonymous
God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.
— Anonymous
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
— Adoniram Judson
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.
— Anonymous
When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.
— Anonymous
It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.
— Anonymous
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.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
— Charles Spurgeon