See also: Prayer, Neglect of
Bibles read without prayer, sermons heard without prayer, engagements to marriage without prayer, travel undertaken without prayer, homes chosen without prayer, friendships formed without prayer, the daily act of private prayer itself hurried over or gone through without heart – these are the kind of downward steps by which many a Christian descends to a condition of spiritual paralysis, or reaches the point where God allows him to have a tremendous fall.
J.C. Ryle
A prayerless soul is a Christless soul.
C.H. Spurgeon
Nothing brings such leanness into a man’s soul as lack of prayer.
C.H. Spurgeon
No man can progress in grace if he forsakes prayer.
C.H. Spurgeon
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil.
C.H. Spurgeon