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“Let your prayers be earnest, full of fire, vehemence, prevalence” (Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, p. 71).
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“Certain brethren do not even manage to keep unity in the sermon, but wander from Britain to Japan, and bring in all imaginable subjects…” (Spurgeon, Lectures to my Students, p. 69).
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“I have noticed a habit among some – I hope you have not fallen into it – of praying with their eyes open.  It is unnatural, unbecoming, and disgusting” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 68).
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“Lastly, because he has taught nothing specifically, and because these things are not necessary to salvation, and for the upbuilding of the church ought to be variously accommodated to the customs of each nation and age, it will be fitting (as the advantage of the church will require) to change and abrogate traditional practices and
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“…it is my solemn conviction that the prayer is one of the most weighty, useful, and honourable parts of the service, and that it ought to be even more considered than the sermon” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 59).
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“If there be no melting of the glacier high up in the ravines of the mountain, there will be no descending rivulets to cheer the plain.  Private prayer is the drill ground for our more public exercises, neither can we long neglect it without being out of order when before the people” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My
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“…slovenly, careless, lifeless talk in the guise of prayer, made to fill up a certain space in the service, is a weariness to man, and an abomination to God” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 55).
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“Quietude, which some men cannot abide, because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 40).
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