Prayer Importance Quotes

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to be bothering God with it. Maybe we should let Him decide these things.

I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

"But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people.

Every other consideration and plan and emphasis is secondary to that of wielding the forces of prayer.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.

We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a proper mood, for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

For me, making time for God is like making time to fill my stomach - like the physical space in the stomach needs food, spiritual space in one's soul needs regular prayer.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.