Prayer Life Quotes:

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- John Bunyan

topic: Prayer, Heart, Worship, Prayer Changes Things, Inspirational Prayer

No man is greater than his prayer life.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Prayer, Men, Christianity, Christian Life, Showing Off

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

- William Law

source: William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) (1759). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection ... The fifth edition”, p.403

topic: Christian, Prayer, Happy Life, Prayer Changes Things, Christian Prayer

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

- F.B. Meyer

topic: Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is, Inspirational Prayer, Unanswered

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Prayer, Praying To God, Prayer Changes Things

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

- John Ortberg

topic: Prayer, Long, Desire, Mustard, Mustard Seed

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Prayer, Order, Giving, Thoughts And Prayers, Our Prayers

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

- Meister Eckhart

topic: Inspirational, Life, Thanksgiving, Prayer Changes Things, I Am Thankful

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Prayer, Men, Care, Colossal, Prayer Life

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Prayer, Determined, Life Is, Prayer Life

He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Path, Praying, Prayer Life, Holy Life

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

- J. Sidlow Baxter

source: "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

topic: Prayer, Men, Messages, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

- Francis of Assisi

source: The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

topic: Love, Peace, Hatred, Love And Hate, Joy God

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer, Prayer Changes Things, Spiritual Soul

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

- Frank Laubach

topic: Prayer, Two, Listening, Listening To God, Connecting With God

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Spiritual, Country, Prayer, Prayer Changes Things, Locality

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

topic: Prayer, Heaven, Saint, Deathless, Inspirational Prayer

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Prayer, Burden, Praying To God, I Pray

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Being Strong, Men, Stronger, Strong Man, I Am Strong

When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Notebook, Prayer, Heart, Prayer Life

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

- William Temple

topic: Prayer, Coincidence, Praying, Praying To God, I Pray

O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.

- Andy Murray

topic: Prayer, Secret, Earth, Christian Prayer, Prayer Life

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.32, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Doe, Holy, Prayer Life, Holy Life

O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

- Phillips Brooks

source: Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

topic: Life, Men, Miracle, Praying To God, I Pray

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

- Brother Lawrence

source: Brother Lawrence (1967). “The Practice of the Presence of God”, p.20, Baker Books

topic: Sweet, Practice, World, Inspirational Prayer, Listening To God

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

- Hannah More

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 458), 1895.

topic: Prayer, Eloquence, Compunction, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

- Bruce Lee

topic: Courage, Prayer, Motivation, Martial Arts Inspirational, Daily Living

To pray well is the better half of study.

- Martin Luther

topic: Prayer, Half, Praying, Prayer Life, Better Half

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Men, Stronger, Praying, Just Stay Strong, Inspirational Courage

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

- George Meredith

source: 'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

topic: Prayer, Men, Answered Prayers, Praying To God, Prayer Life

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

- Charles Grandison Finney

source: Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.114

topic: Christian, Prayer, Heart, Praying To God, Cement

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Prayer, Personality, Moments, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Prayer, Believe, Our Prayers, God Is With You, Faith In Love

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

- Hannah More

topic: Prayer, Feelings, Soul, Praying To God, Inspirational Prayer

You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse.

- David Yonggi Cho

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Cells, Prayer Life

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Prayer Life

Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence. This will bring you closer to Jesus. If you deepen your prayer life you will grow in holiness and obtain many graces for the souls entrusted to your care. Deepen your love for one another by praying for each other and by sharing thoughts and graces you have received in prayer and reading.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Reading, Prayer Life

It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.

- Ole Hallesby

source: Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

topic: Prayer, Blessed, Giving, Prayer Life

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

- John Piper

topic: Christian, Prayer, Love Relationship, Our Prayers, Prayer Life

Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.

- Joan D. Chittister

topic: Prayer, Self, Grace, Prayer Life

I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.

- Ravi Zacharias

source: FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 15, 2015

topic: Life, God, Christian, Prayer Life, Hearing God

The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Prayer, Heart, Ideas, Prayer Life

A rich, vibrant, consoling, hard-won prayer life is the one good that makes it possible to receive all other kinds of goods rightly and beneficially. [Paul] does not see prayer as merely a way to get things from God but as a way to get more of God himself.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.20, Penguin

topic: Prayer, Doe, Way, Prayer Life

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

- Timothy Keller

source: Timothy Keller (2014). “Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God”, p.21, Penguin

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Religious, Spiritual Integrity, Prayer Life

People with a lot of theological study and no prayer life are dangerous... and not in a good way.

- Mark Hart

source: Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.15, Franciscan Media

topic: Prayer, People, Way, Prayer Life

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Life, Prayer, Children, Snares, Quicksand