Quotes about prayer
prayer heart giving
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart. Charles Spurgeon
prayer spring born
All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it. Charles Spurgeon
prayer real lying
Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way...Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered...the strength [not length] of your prayer...wins...God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord. Charles Spurgeon
prayer soul christ
A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.. Charles Spurgeon
prayer moving omnipotence
Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. Charles Spurgeon
prayer water promise
Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise. Charles Spurgeon
prayer heaven littles
Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. Charles Spurgeon
prayer weight may
...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length. Charles Spurgeon
prayer heart trading
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God. Charles Spurgeon
prayer soul thrones
True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God. Charles Spurgeon
prayer hatred response
Prayer is the best response to hatred. Charles Spurgeon
prayer anxiety doubt
Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties. Charles Spurgeon
prayer differences people
A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival. Charles Spurgeon
prayer
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel. Charles Spurgeon
prayer incense psalms
Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise. Charles Spurgeon
prayer long peril
All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer. Charles Spurgeon
prayer lord forgiven
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer Charles Spurgeon
prayer successful confession
For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession. Charles Spurgeon
prayer shadow mercy
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. Charles Spurgeon
prayer heart ravens
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart. Charles Spurgeon
prayer opportunity giving
Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request. Charles Spurgeon
prayer heart goal
We must remember that the GOAL of prayer is the ear of God. Unless that is gained, the prayer has utterly failed. The uttering of it may have kindled devotional feeling in our minds, the hearing of it may have comforted and strengthened the hearts of those with whom we have prayed, but if the prayer has not gained the heart of God, it has failed in its essential purpose. Charles Spurgeon
prayer men shining
What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit. Charles Spurgeon
prayer motivation inspiration
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer. Charles Spurgeon
prayer long praying
Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. Charles Spurgeon
prayer nine neglect
Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer. Charles Spurgeon
prayer moving omnipotence
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. Charles Spurgeon
prayer important answers
We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply. Charles Spurgeon
prayer gun fire
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed. Charles Spurgeon
prayer knees study
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees. Charles Spurgeon
prayer pay requirements
Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality. Charles Spurgeon
prayer giving weakness
Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Charles Spurgeon
prayer birth-place evil
It is well said that neglected prayer is the birth-place of all evil. Charles Spurgeon