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6851 Christian quotes by 2026 unique authors
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Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of…
— David Brainerd
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Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden…
— Amy Carmichael
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Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
— Richard Baxter
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The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs…
— Samuel Chadwick
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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper understanding, they would…
— Watchman Nee
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Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that…
— Watchman Nee
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A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before…
— John Owen
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and…
— Richard Sibbes
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The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.
— Matthew Henry
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
— Oswald Chambers
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Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every…
— John Mott
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Let methods be changed, therefore, if necessary, that prayer may be given its true place. Let there be days set apart for intercession; let the…
— John Mott
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The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come…
— John Mott
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The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
— Dwight L. Moody
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I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.
— Jonathan Falwell
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We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto…
— Adoniram Judson
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Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these…
— Jim Cymbala
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