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Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

Charles Spurgeon

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Book Reading Yourself
When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head.
CHARLES SPURGEON

God Struggle Yourself
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Glory God Yourself
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Believe Death Joy Punishment
Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Care Mindset Yourself
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Break God Greatness Man Pieces
The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Book Memories
You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Heart Himself Yourself
Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Animal Book Religious Yourself
The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Freedom God Religious Word Yourself
The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?
CHARLES SPURGEON

Dedication Morning Praise
We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, ‘Is it pleasant?’ but, ‘Is it true?’
CHARLES SPURGEON

Learning True
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
CHARLES SPURGEON

Death Forever Hands Lose
Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Praise Thankful World Yesterday Yourself
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Deal Fools Greatness Knowledge Man Right Wisdom
Whatever a man depends upon, whatever rules his mind, whatever governs his affections, whatever is the chief object of his delight, is his god.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Affection God Government Men Mindset Rule
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Animal Entertainment Food Time
Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Forever Life Light Live Reason Time
We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Mindset Thankful Wrong
God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Comfortable God Heaven Home Ourselves Spirit
A person who is really saved by Grace does not need to be told that he is under solemn obligations to serve Christ. The new life within him tells him that. Instead of regarding it as a burden, he gladly surrenders himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the Lord.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Himself Life Need Person Surrender
His eyes never slumber, and His hands never rest; His heart never ceases to beat with love, and His shoulders are never weary of carrying His people’s burdens.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Eyes Hands Heart Himself Love People
Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don’t know where we are going, we know with whom we go.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Company Himself Leadership Path
It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Heart Prayer Time Yourself
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Blessing Ourselves Writing
Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Danger God Religious
The world’s one and only remedy is the cross.
CHARLES SPURGEON

Oneself World

Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.

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