Prayer Life Quotes

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

Prayer, Long, Desire

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

William Law

Christian, Prayer, Happy Life

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

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

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dream, Spiritual, Prayer

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

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

F.B. Meyer

Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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No man is greater than his prayer life.

Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer, Men, Christianity

Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.25, Bethany House

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

Oswald Chambers

Prayer, Order, Giving

Oswald Chambers (1927). “My utmost for His Highest: selections for every day”

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

Meister Eckhart

Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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

John Bunyan

Love, Christian, Peace

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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

Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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

Francis of Assisi

Love, God, Christian

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

Arthur Tappan Pierson

Country, Spiritual, Prayer

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

Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer, Men, Care

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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

Prayer, Path, Praying

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

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God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer, Evil, World

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

Charles Stanley

Prayer, Determined, Life Is

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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

Notebook, Prayer, Heart

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

Faith, Christian, Prayer

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

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

Corrie Ten Boom

Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Life, Strength

"Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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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

Prayer, Powerful, Cells

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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

Christian, Prayer, Heart

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

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

Frank Laubach

Faith, God, Christian

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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

Prayer, Personality, Moments

Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.76, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

Eckhart Tolle

Faith, Prayer, Believe

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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

Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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