Prayer Life Quotes

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

F.B. Meyer

Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is

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

Charles Stanley

Prayer, Determined, Life Is

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

William Temple

Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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

Andy Murray

Prayer, Secret, Earth

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

Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer, Doe, Holy

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

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O, do not pray for easy lives.

Phillips Brooks

Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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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

Sweet, Prayer, Practice

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

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