Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Judge the Catholic Church not by those who barely live by its spirit, but by the example of those who live closest to it.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

The most important thing you must decide to do every day is put the Lord first.

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is abundance of hearing, reading, talking, professing, visiting, contributing to the poor and teaching at schools. But is there, together with all this, a due proportion of private prayer? Are believing men and women sufficiently careful to be frequently alone with God?

It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

Prayer is essentially the practice of the presence of God, and that is the road to Heaven. There is no alternative. God is the only game in town. All other roads are dead ends. Since we must give our all to the one true God, we must not give any part to idols, to the many false gods that now bite away at our lives.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.

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

I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

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

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

I whispered to Dad during Rosh Hashanah services, "Do you believe in God?" "Not really," he said. "No." "Then why do we come here?" He sucked thoughfully on his Tums tablet and put his arm around me, draping me under his musty woolen prayer shawl, and then shrugged. "I've been wrong before," he said. And that pretty much summed up what theology there was to find in the Foxman home.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.

He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven