J. C. Ryle Quotes

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

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.

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.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

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.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

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

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

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

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Prayerlessness is sin.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.