Philip Yancey Quotes

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

I listen and talk to God daily.

I'm thankful to have Jesus as my Savior. My relationship with God has always been one to where I'm talking to him all day, every day, about anything and everything. It's just a continuous ongoing conversation that I have with the Lord, and I feel like that's brought me closer to Him.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

I still say the 'Lord's Prayer' every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

My method of praying does not meet the conventional standards as I don't recite any specific prayers but rather indulge in conversations with God.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Prayer is happy company with God.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

He who has ceased to pray has lost a great friendship.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.