Best Prayer Life Quotes

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

No man is greater than his prayer life.

To pray well is the better half of study.

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

The main problem in developing a deep prayer life is by far the failure to live the radicality of the Gospel, hour by hour and day by day.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one’s 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.

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.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

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

Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.

One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

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

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

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

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

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.

The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

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

In working with people across the country and around the world, I’ve come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

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.