Charles Spurgeon On Prayer Quotes

#1. Whether it be prayer or praise, whether it be work or suffering, the genuine salt of humility cannot be used in excess.

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#2. The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

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#3. Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

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#4. IF ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as He!

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#5. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

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#6. In our hours of bodily pain and mental anguish, we find ourselves as naturally driven to prayer as the wreck is driven upon the shore by the waves.

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#7. 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.

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#8. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

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#9. Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

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#10. The power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

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#11. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

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#12. PRAISE should always follow answered prayer;

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#13. Most of us think too much of speech, which is but the shell of thought.

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#14. Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice.

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#15. A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

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#16. If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

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#17. Prayer is the forerunner of mercy.

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#18. Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

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

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#20. The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

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#21. There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

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#22. It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

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#23. Let us set apart special seasons for extraordinary prayer. For if this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.

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#24. Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

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#25. Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

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#26. See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; when you gaze with love upon His all-glorious face, you not only obtain comfort, but impart delight.

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#27. It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

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#28. If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

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#29. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

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#30. 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.

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#31. I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

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#32. 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.

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#33. Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

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#34. Our prayer must always be, 'Holy Spirit, dwell with me! Holy Spirit, dwell with Your servants!

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#35. Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

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#36. Groans that words cannot express are often prayers that God cannot refuse.

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#37. 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.

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#38. If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

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