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Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Giving, Weakness
C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.285, Hendrickson Publishers

Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man's eye? Only when the Holy Spirit comes is there any life and force and power.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Eye, Men
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

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Wheels, Machinery
Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication,inc (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 82”, p.202, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

Christian, take good care of thy faith; for recollect faith is the only way whereby thou canst obtain blessings. If we want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne except it be the earnest prayer of a man who believes. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

Charles Spurgeon
Christian, Jesus, Prayer
C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.79, Hendrickson Publishers

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

Charles Spurgeon
Jesus, Prayer, Father
Charles H. Spurgeon (2013). “Faith's Checkbook”, p.192, Moody Publishers

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Heart, Trading
Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.28, Whitaker House

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

Charles Spurgeon
Wise, Prayer, Purpose

Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Soul, Christ
C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.2, Hendrickson Publishers

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

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Asking, Kingdoms
Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Believe, Practice

The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.

Charles Spurgeon
Gratitude, Prayer, Benefits
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.12, Kregel Academic

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.

Charles Spurgeon
Prayer, Heart, Giving
Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.91, Barbour Publishing

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

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

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

Charles Spurgeon
Spiritual, Prayer, Exercise
Charles Spurgeon (1998). “Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (6 In 1 Anthology)”, p.59, Whitaker House

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