Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

Never be too proud to go onto your knees before God.

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

The man who would truly know God must give time to Him.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.