You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.
–Blessed Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
Do not think that you have a right to complain when your prayers are not answered. God fulfills your desires in a manner that you do not know.
–Saint Nektarios of Aegina (1846-1920)
God fulfills your desires in a manner that you do not know.
–Saint Nektarios of Aegina (1846-1920)
If we can enter the church day and night and implore God to hear our prayers, how careful we should be to hear and grant the petitions of our neighbors in need.
–Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226)
The reason why sometimes you have asked and not received, is because you have asked amiss, either inconsistently, or lightly, or because you have asked for what was not good for you, or because you have ceased asking.
— Saint Basil the Great (330-379)
