Quotes by Preachers

Tale-bearing emits a threefold poison; for it injures the teller, the hearer, and the person concerning whom the tale is told.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
do you reckon to win the everlasting laurels without a conflict?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
There are no crown-bearers in heaven who were not cross-bearers here below.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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 Haddon Spurgeon
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
William Booth
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Joseph Scriven
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
John Bunyan
Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan
Lord if any have to die this day let it be me for I am ready.
Billy Bray
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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 Haddon Spurgeon
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
John Bunyan
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
William Booth
What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior still our refuge Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit O what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Joseph Scriven
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
John Bunyan
Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
John Bunyan
The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan
Lord if any have to die this day let it be me for I am ready.
Billy Bray
Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
One night alone in prayer might make us new men changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth from trembling to triumphing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By perseverance the snails reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
He that is down need fear no fall.
John Bunyan
It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
Saint abroad and a devil at home.
John Bunyan
Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
Vance Havner
Never throw mud. You may miss your mark but you must have dirty hands.
Joseph Parker
You can and you can't You will and you won't You'll be damn'd if you do You'll be damn'd if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow
Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.
Robert South
Society is built upon trust.
Robert South
Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon