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Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Church, Neglect
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Believe, Numbers

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Charles Spurgeon
Temptation, Idle, Industrious

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, One Day, Today
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.102, Editora Dracaena

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

Charles Spurgeon
Devotion, Splendid, Fine
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1983). “Psalm LXXIX to CIII”

Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

Charles Spurgeon
Next, Things To Do, Walks

Obedience is the highest practical courage.

Charles Spurgeon
Obedience, Practicals, Highest
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 14: Sermons 788 to 847”, p.131, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Charles Spurgeon
Damn You, Pageantry, Doe
Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 46: Sermons 2603-2655”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.

Charles Spurgeon
Depression, Christian Inspirational, Achievement

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Long, Peril
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.204

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Men, Museums

Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Medicine, Age

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

Charles Spurgeon
Water, Tears, Desire
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 15: Sermons 848 to 907”, p.510, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Regret, Godly

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Grace, Covenant
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Collected Works Vol. 1”, p.201, Lulu.com

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Charles Spurgeon
Prophet, Unconscious

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Charles Spurgeon
Keys, Beggary, Idleness
Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Salt Cellars”, p.269, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love.

Charles Spurgeon
Believe, Should Have, Special
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.277, Zondervan

I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage, who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water, and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing, What! all this, and Christ too?

Charles Spurgeon
Blessing, Hands, Water
Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.180, New Leaf Publishing Group

There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.

Charles Spurgeon
God, Christian, Religious
Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.42, Destiny Image Publishers

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

Charles Spurgeon
Salvation, Should, Evidence

I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.

Charles Spurgeon
Home, World, Earth
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

Charles Spurgeon
Care, Safe, Divine
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1623, Barbour Publishing

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

Charles Spurgeon
Guilt, Compromise, Sin
Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.128, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

Charles Spurgeon
Lying, Believe, Winning
Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.238, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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