
“Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.”
P. 457.
As quoted by George Sweeting (senior pastor at Moody Church and former President of the Moody Bible Institute), in Talking it over http://books.google.es/books?id=3U47r8goSvwC&q=%22To+be+a+Christian+without+prayer+is+no+more+possible+than+to+be+alive+without+breathing%22&dq=%22To+be+a+Christian+without+prayer+is+no+more+possible+than+to+be+alive+without+breathing%22&hl=es&sa=X&ei=zJ47UubGKKasyAHvuoDoCA&ved=0CDgQ6AEwATgK (Sep. 1, 1979), p. 88. and The Basics of the Christian Life (Aug 1, 1983), p. 83. No earlier sources are pointed out.
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“Prayer is the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it.”
P. 457.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 221.
“Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.”
Source: Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
“It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXIII : First weeks of Matrimony; Helen to Arthur
“Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 461.
“A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.”
Volk ohne Religion, das ist so wie Mensch ohne Atem.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
“Work without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
At the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (1877), in Arrows of the Chase, vol. 2 (in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, vol. 23 https://books.google.it/books?hl=it&id=Gpc3AAAAYAAJ), p. 129.