Prayer Necessity Quotes

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

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.

Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

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.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

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

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

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Dear children in Jesus Christ, prayer is absolutely necessary.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.