Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

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.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

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!

My relationship with God has gotten better and stronger for the simple fact that I understand it a lot better. You know, to me, God's my best friend.

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

The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.