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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 andRead more

“…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).Read more

“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 MyRead more

“…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).Read more

“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).Read more

“Unction is a thing which you cannot manufacture, and its counterfeits are worse than worthless; yet it is in itself priceless, and beyond measure needful if you would edify believers and bring sinners to Jesus” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 50).Read more

“The minister who does not earnestly pray over his work must surely be a vain and conceited man.  He acts as if he thought himself sufficient of himself, and therefore needed not to appeal to God” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 47).Read more

“We may discover, after having laboured long and wearily in preaching, that all the honour belongs to another builder, whose prayers were gold, silver, and precious stones, while our sermonisings being apart from prayer, were but hay and stubble” (Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 46).Read more