Unanswered Prayers Quotes

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers. Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs; that just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong, but tonight you're on my mind, so you never know.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.