Encouraged to Pray Quotes

“When we cannot pray as we would, it is good to pray as we can.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“If I feel myself disinclined to pray, then is the time when I need to pray more than ever.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“Prayer is the natural outgushing of a soul in communion with Jesus. Just as the leaf and the fruit will come out of the vine-branch without any conscious effort on the part of the branch, but simply because of its living union with the stem, so prayer buds, and blossoms, and fruits out of souls abiding in Jesus.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“Not to pray because you do not feel fit to pray is like saying, “I will not take medicine because I am too ill.” Pray for prayer: pray yourself, by the Spirit’s assistance, into a praying frame.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“A mother can translate baby-talk: she comprehends incomprehensible noises. Even so doth our Father in heaven know all about our poor baby talk, for our prayer is not much better.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“The best praying man is the man who is most believingly familiar with the promises of God. After all, prayer is nothing but taking God’s promises to him, and saying to him, “Do as thou hast said.” Prayer is the promise utilized. A prayer which is not based on a promise has no true foundation.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“I never expect, until I get to heaven, to be able to cease confessing sin every day and every time I stand before God.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“The streaming wounds of Jesus are the sure guarantees for answered prayer.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer

“Dear brethren, if we shut our ears to what Jesus tells us, we shall never have power in prayer, nor shall we enjoy intimate communion with the Well-beloved.”
― Charles Spurgeon, Encouraged to Pray: Classic Sermons on Prayer