Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

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

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

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.

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Hold on to your salah, because if you lose that, you will lose everything else.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

If I don't go to mass, necessarily, every day, but I definitely go to the church every day. That's how I start my day. I like to get in there for about 15 to 20 minutes and say my prayers.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

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.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.