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As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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  1. Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel. – lvaro de Campos
  2. Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  3. To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  4. If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. – Philip K
  5. 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
  6. The seed of acceptable devotion must come from heaven’s storehouse. Only the prayer which comes from God can go to God. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  7. A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  8. 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
  9. Them lady poets must not marry, pal . . . It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them. – John Berryman
  10. 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
  11. If boys would think, it would be well to give them less classwork and more opportunity for thought. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  12. The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  13. God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  14. All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-”if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  15. 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
  16. Artists must remain in a state of awe to remain artists. – Marty Rubin
  17. While pensive poets painful vigils keep,Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. – Alexander Pope
  18. It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  19. There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  20. Every unearnest minister is an unfaithful one. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  21. The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  22. Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  23. Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  24. Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  25. Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  26. Many preachers are at home among books but quite at sea among men. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  27. 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
  28. If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  29. A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  30. Marching and quick-marching are much easier to God’s warriors than standing still. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  31. Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  32. When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  33. Unbelief is a master carpenter at cross-making. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  34. 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
  35. Be wise and attend to obeying. Let Christ manage the providing. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  36. You can leave the Word of God to wound and kill it need not be yourselves cutting in phrase in manner. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  37. Better abolish pulpits then to appoint men who have no experiential knowledge of what they teach. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  38. The world commands our desire for purity but bids that we not be too precise about it. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  39. God has made all things that are in the world to be our teachers. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  40. 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

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