Charles Spurgeon Quotes

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.

Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning lava of prayer that finds its way to God. No prayer ever reaches God's heart which does not come from our hearts.

The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry.