Worldlings pray to the Lord in times of need, when it serves their turn. They cry to Him in trouble, but forsake Him in prosperity.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Related Quotes:
- Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. – Kowtham Kumar K
- I have seen times of plentiful and times of scarcity.I enjoy the times of prosperity and endure the times of difficulty. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity before giving prosperity to His children – Sunday Adelaja
- There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Winter in the soul is by no means a comfortable season: but there is this comfort, namely, that the Lord makes it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Cast the burden of the present along with the sin of the past and the fear of the future upon the Lord. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Let our liberty be practically exhibited by serving the Lord with gratitude and delight. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday-¦ – Bone Thugs and Harmony
- Pray greatly.Pray gladly.Pray graciously.Pray gallantly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Pray daily.Pray daringly.Pray desperately.Pray determinedly. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Pray sensibly.Pray scrupulously.Pray selflessly.Pray seriously. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own! – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Dost thou want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Christ’s vast benevolence must, from the very nature of things, have afforded Him the deepest possible delight, for benevolence is joy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Don’t be fretting…about me marrying. Marrying’s a trouble and not marrying’s a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows. – LM Montgomery
- The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego – Soke Behzad Ahmadi
- A man’s eye serves as a photography to the invisible, as well as his ear serves as echo to the silence. – Machado de Assis
- O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- We lose much consolation by the habit of reading His promises for the whole church, instead of taking them directly home to ourselves. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon