Quotes from Charles Spurgeon
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
- Charles Spurgeon
The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.
- Charles Spurgeon
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
- Charles Spurgeon
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.
- Charles Spurgeon
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.
- Charles Spurgeon
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
- Charles Spurgeon
Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!
- Charles Spurgeon
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
- Charles Spurgeon