Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

I think it would be a welcome reminder to every American that we can pray a good deal more at home. We can attend our churches with a good deal more fidelity.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it's important to ask: 'Am I putting God first?'

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to be sick; he who has no time to pray must find time to die; he who can find no time to reflect is most likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repentance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail; he who cannot find time to work for others may find an eternity in which to suffer for himself.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

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

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

If we want to read and to pray the prayers of the Bible and especially the Psalms, therefore, we must not ask first what they have to do with us, but what they have to do with Jesus Christ...It does not depend, therefore, on whether the Psalms express adequately that which we feel at a given moment in our heart. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!

My priorities have always been God first, family second, career third. I have found that when I put my life in this order, everything seems to work out. God was my first priority early in my career when I was struggling to make ends meet. Through the failures and success I have experienced since then, my faith has remained unchecked.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.