Charles Spurgeon Quotes

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

During the rests - pray.