“For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.”
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
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“The Lord hears every Prayer, and he whose Prayer is not answered receives from the Lord the same saving gift as he whose Prayer is answered.”
Saint Ephrem the Syrian
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“Entrust all your cares to the Lord: He will take care of you. Entreat God and don’t lose courage. Don’t think that because your desire is holy, you have the right to complain when your Prayers go unheard. God will fulfill your desires in some way you don’t know about.”
Saint Nektarios of Aegina
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“In our Prayers, we should be very careful about what exactly we are asking for; because we do not know if He will give us what we are asking for and if we will be able to endure it.”
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis of Evia
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“If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.”
Saint Isaac the Syrian
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“Our requests are necessary expressly to strengthen our faith, through which alone we can be saved. ‘By grace are we saved through faith’ (Eph 2:8). ‘O woman, great is your faith’ (Mt. 15:28). For this reason the Lord made the woman Pray earnestly, in order to awaken her faith and to strengthen it.”
Saint John of Kronstadt
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“The best Prayer is: ‘Lord! Thou knowest all things. Do with me as Thou Willest!’”
Saint Theophan the Recluse
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“Do not grieve if you do not at once receive from God that which you ask. He wishes to benefit you still more by making you persist longer in your patient Prayer before Him. For what can be higher than to address one’s converse to God and be in communion with Him?”
Saint Nilus of Sinai
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“Remember that during your Prayers, God is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: ‘Do you believe I am able to do this?’ To which you must from the depth of your heart reply, ‘Yes, Lord!’”
Saint John of Kronstadt
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“True Prayer always reaches Heaven. The Angels carry it to the right place and the answer comes. Its basis is Truth, and “Not My will, but that of the Father Who sent me.””
Saint Gavrilia, the Ascetic of Love
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“God always helps. He always comes in time, but patience is necessary. He hears us immediately when we cry out to Him, but not in accordance with our own way of thinking.”
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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“Do not ever succumb to the insane thought that God has abandoned you. God knows exactly how much one can endure and, according to that, measures the sufferings and pains of everyone.”
Saint Nikolai Velimivoric
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“God is Unconditional Love and knows what you are going through.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Satan’s whole concern is to convince man that God does not care about him.”
Saint Isaac the Syrian
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“God does not forsake you… Keep up your courage…”
Saint John Chrysostom
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