It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard.
– Aesop
Related Quotes:
- Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago. – Errol Anthony Smythe
- The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! – Sinclair Lewis
- Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
- Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord builds the city, the guard keeps watch in vain. – Anonymous
- Dying in vain isn’t really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It’s the living in vain you really have to watch out for. – Ross Thomas
- Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin? – John Pereira
- The prayers of Christians are in vain if they do not plan any corresponding actions – Sunday Adelaja
- Not by prayers alone will a captive be freed, but by another man’s prayers matched by his deeds. – John Kramer
- If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy. – Lisa Bevere
- When my prayers are answered, I am happy because it was my wish. When my prayers are not answered, I am even more happy because that was gods wish. – Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Prayers said by good people are always good prayers – Willa Cather
- It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. – Mary Wollstonecraft
- When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish! – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
- God has always heard and answered the prayers of all who cry on Him and call His name. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. – Aesop
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. – Aesop
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. – Aesop
- All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack. – Aesop
- Do not waste your pity on a scamp. – Aesop
- Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations. – Aesop
- The value is in the worth, not in the number. – Aesop
- I don’t mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate. – Aesop
- Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. – Wilbur Smith
- music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts. – TS Eliot
- If you don’t speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don’t really exist – Anuranjita Kumar
- There are more places you haven’t heard of then you’re heard of!’ I loved that – Jonathan Safran Foer
- Sometimes we just need to be heard-¦ There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed. – Steve Maraboli
- Sometimes we just need to be heard-¦ There are times in life when being heard leads to being healed. – Steve Maraboli
- We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood-”heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant. – Deborah Tannen
- I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence – Paul Morabito
- I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence – Paul Morabito
- You’re like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again – Maggie Stiefvater
- It was the moment I heard your laughter. The moment I heard us laughing, two cascades in the middle of a desert, careless and uninhibited. – Malak El Halabi
- Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him? – Pierre Troubetzkoy
- Don’t Expect Others To Read Or Hear your Thoughts.If You Want To Be Heard, Speak Up! – Jaachynma NE Agu
- There are two ways to avoid getting disappointed.Expect everything – or expect nothing. – Hasse Jerner
- Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be. – Thomas Jefferson
- Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect. – Debasish Mridha
- When you pray and hope for a change. Don’t expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come. – Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- God does not expect of us what we cannot do, but He does expect what we can do. – Kristiane Backer