Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Meetings

• We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Church

• You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Smart, Hair

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1855 & 1856: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1032, New Leaf Publishing Group

• Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Church, Machinery

• The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. 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 slothfulness in prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Judging, People

• I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Cities, People

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.109, Barbour Publishing

• Oh! yes, (the prayer meeting) is the place to meet with the Holy Ghost, and this is the way to get His mighty power. If we would have Him, we must meet in greater numbers; we must pray with greater fervency, we must watch with greater earnestness, and believe with firmer steadfastness. The prayer meeting...is the appointed place for the reception of power.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Believe, Numbers

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