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Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.

Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Pay, Requirements
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Robert Hall (1993). “The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life”, p.151, YWAM Publishing

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Important, Answers
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2015). “Spurgeon on the Psalms Book Two: Psalm 26 through Psalm 50”, p.24, Bridge Logos Inc

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

Charles Spurgeon
Valentines Day, Benefits, Sake

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Christ, Intention

If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.

Charles Spurgeon
Loss, Heaven, Would Be

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.

Charles Spurgeon
Men, Heaven, Dry
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1884). “John Ploughman's Talk and Pictures; Or Plain Advice for Plain People: In One Volume”

Giving is true loving.

Charles Spurgeon
Generosity, Giving, Stewardship

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.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Prayer, World
Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.202, Discovery House

God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Foul, Ifs
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 315), 1895.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Believe, Honey
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1869). “Evening by Evening; Or, Readings at Eventide for the Family Or the Closet”, p.50

I slew him-this right hand struck the dagger to his heart. My deeds slew Christ. Alas! I slew my best beloved; I killed him who loved me with an everlasting love. Oh eyes, why do you refuse to weep when you see Jesus' body mangled and torn? Give vent to your sorrow, Christians, for you have good reason to do so.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Friday, Jesus
Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.279, New Leaf Publishing Group

I ascribe my change wholly to God.

Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.59, Barbour Publishing

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Sacrifice, Men
Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.189, Zondervan

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without recreation may suit spirits emancipated from this 'heavy clay', but while we are in this tabernacle, we must every now and then cry halt, and serve the Lord by holy inaction and consecrated leisure. Let no tender conscience doubt the lawfulness of going out of harness for a while

Charles Spurgeon
Running, Long, Doubt

Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.

Charles Spurgeon
Weather, Heaven, Storm
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1874). “Flashes of thought; 1000 choice extr. from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”, p.175

There is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow.

Charles Spurgeon
Sweet, Joy, Sorrow

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Charles Spurgeon
Mean, Reactionaries, Earnestness
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1892). “Brilliants: selected from the works of C.H. Spurgeon”

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Charles Spurgeon
Vanity, Variation, Lord
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.3977, Bible Study Steps

It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

Charles Spurgeon
Grateful, Adoration
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.415, Kregel Academic

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

Charles Spurgeon
Casts, Best Things, Happens

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Charles Spurgeon
Saint, Use, Sickness

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.

Charles Spurgeon
Angel, Thinking, Often Is

When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.

Charles Spurgeon
Heart, Loss, Opportunity
Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 80”, p.273, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.

Charles Spurgeon
Hands, Despair, Connections
Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.696, Barbour Publishing

The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Flower, Would Be
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “Feathers for Arrows: Or Illustrations for Preachers and Teachers, from My Note Book”, p.98

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