Private Prayer Quotes

#1. Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises, neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

Thomas Watson

#3. Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#4. Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames. But gather these straws into a bundle and light them, and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky; public prayer is like that.

John Vianney

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

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid - necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?

George Eliot

#7. What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#8. that backsliding generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. Bibles read without prayer; sermons heard without prayer; marriages contracted without prayer; journeys undertaken without prayer; residences chosen without

J.C. Ryle

#9. 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.

J.C. Ryle

#10. The place of private prayer is the key, the strategic position, where decisive victory is obtained.

Andrew Murray

#11. The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

Leonard Ravenhill

#12. Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Edwin Louis Cole

#13. The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.

Jeremy Taylor

#14. God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.

George W. Bush

#15. A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Dwight L. Moody

#16. A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private -Finch

Jennifer Niven

#17. No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.

Jeremy Taylor

#18. With all prayer (Eph. 6:18) All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others ... let us use all.

John Wesley

#19. Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts

William Jovanovich

#21. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

Mark Hart

#22. In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

David Herbert Donald

#23. I am on the highest branch.
We are written in paint.
I believe in signs.
The glow of Ultraviolet.
A lake. A prayer. It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.

Jennifer Niven

#24. There is always more profit and more consolation in the public Offices of the Church than in private acts of devotion, God having willed to give the preference to communion in prayer over all individual action.

Francis De Sales

#25. Public prayers of are of little value unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.

E. M. Bounds

#26. I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them no why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers.

Avril Lavigne

#27. I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

William Wilberforce

#28. There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

Jonathan Edwards

#29. Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#30. He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

John Calvin

#31. The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

D. A. Carson