Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If you want to pray better, you have to pray more.

Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

They, therefore, who are hasty in their devotions and think a little will do, are strangers both to the nature of devotion and the nature of man; they do not know that they are to learn to pray, and that prayer is to be learnt as they learn other things, by frequency, constancy, and perseverance.

If you pray more you will pray better.

I would like to ask you a question: how many of you pray to the Holy Spirit every day? Probably few, but we must satisfy this desire of Jesus and pray every day to the Holy Spirit, so that he opens our heart towards Jesus.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

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

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

RELIGION IS DOING; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy. Whether he likes it or not he shows his attitude towards religion by his actions and he can show his attitude only by his actions. Therefore if his actions are opposed to those which are demanded by a given religion he cannot assert that he belongs to that religion.

Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

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.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

You can't just say, 'God help me,' and he's there. It takes a little bit more work on the part of the individual, I think.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.