Prayer Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

— Charles Spurgeon

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

— Charles Spurgeon

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

— Charles Spurgeon

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

— Charles Spurgeon

Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer can never be in excess.

— Charles Spurgeon

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

— Charles Spurgeon

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

— Charles Spurgeon

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into…

— Charles Spurgeon

All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.

— Charles Spurgeon

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

— Charles Spurgeon

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.

— Charles Spurgeon

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

— Charles Spurgeon

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer,…

— Charles Spurgeon

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of…

— Charles Spurgeon

It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning…

— Charles Spurgeon

There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should…

— Charles Spurgeon

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord…

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God.…

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that…

— Charles Spurgeon

A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,…

— Charles Spurgeon

Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out…

— Charles Spurgeon

The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Our Father in heaven" -- I am a child away from home. "Your name be honored as holy"--I am a worshiper. "Your…

— Charles Spurgeon

Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies;…

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for…

— Charles Spurgeon

A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Reading has a kernel to it, and the mere shed is little worth. In prayer there is such a thing as praying…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Debarred from public worship, David was heartsick. Ease he did not seek, honour he did not covet, but the enjoyment of communion…

— Charles Spurgeon

Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit… The only…

— Charles Spurgeon

Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like…

— Charles Spurgeon

“If thou dost continually draw thine impulse, thy life, the whole of thy being from the Holy Spirit, without whom thou canst…

— Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that…

— Charles Spurgeon

All places are places of worship to a Christian.

— Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

— Charles Spurgeon