A common term is, “I didn't get what I wanted. I got what I needed. And I learned it was what I wanted.” Sometimes, unanswered prayers are the answer.

Country music artist Garth Brooks in 1990 sang on his second album, “No Fences”: "Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." Some religious types, in an effort to protect God from criticism ...

You prayed with faith. You waited with hope. But nothing changed. No sign. No answer. Just silence. It’s a feeling many people carry quietly the doubt that maybe their prayers are being ignored. In ...

Many people pray to praise God, to thank Him for blessings, to lament sorrows and difficulties, to talk to Him, to tell Him things, and to escape from worldly matters. In a 2009 national Pew Survey, ...