Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.

Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

Simplicity and purity are the two wings by which a man is lifted above all earthly things. Simplicity is in the intention - purity in the affection. Simplicity tends to God, - purity apprehends and tastes Him.

Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.

Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives.

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.