Prayer Quotes - The Answer

THE ANSWER


When for a purpose I had prayed
and prayed and prayed


Until my words seemed worn and bare
with arduous use,


And I had knocked and asked and
knocked and asked again,


And all my fervor and persistence
brought no hope,


I paused to give my weary brain a rest
and ceased my anxious human cry.


In that still moment,
after self had tried and failed,


There came a glorious vision of God’s power,
and, lo, my prayer was answered in that hour.


—LOWELL FILLMORE