Quotes from Charles Spurgeon

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers!

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.