Charles Spurgeon Quotes

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

I do believe in the power of prayer.