Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into.

Don't say 'what,' say 'pardon,' darling, and do as your mother tells you.

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.

Rosabelle - answer - tell - pray, answer - look - tell - answer, answer - tell.

Thou shalt not take anything on faith

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand Decency, which would be too often broken in upon, if it were not for that defence, which keeps the enemy at a proper distance.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.