Philip Yancey Quotes

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

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

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

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

I gave my heart to Jesus when I was five-years-old and since then it's been a special relationship. To me it's not a religion; it's just talking to God, reading his word, and doing my best to honor him in everything I do.

Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than I have said. Will not your prayers accomplish that which my preaching fails to do? Is it not likely that the Church has been putting forth its preaching hand but not its praying hand? Oh dear friends! Let us agonize in prayer.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.