C.H. Spurgeon Quotes

We little know what we owe to our Saviour’s prayers. ME23 If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our spotless, perfect Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as He! ME635 Heaven and earth in midnight stillness heard the groans and sighs of the mysterious Being in whom both worlds were blended. ME635 We cannot watch with Him one hour, but He watched for us whole nights. ME635 What a marvel is it that our Lord should have to cry as we do, and wait as we do, and should receive the Father’s help after the same process of faith and pleading as must be gone through by ourselves. TD40:1 The Sun of Righteousness sets upon Calvary in a wondrous splendour; but amongst the bright colours which glorify his departure, there is this one—the prayer was not alone for others, but it was for his cruellest enemies. His enemies, did I say, there is more than that to be considered. It was not a prayer for enemies who had done him an ill deed years before, but for those who were there and then murdering him. Not in cold blood did the Saviour pray, after he had forgotten the injury, and could the more easily forgive it, but while the first red drops of blood were spurting on the hands which drove the nails; while yet the hammer was bestained with crimson gore, his blessed mouth poured out the fresh warm prayer, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” 897.591 After closing the supper, his public preaching work being ended, and nothing remaining to be done but to die, he gave himself wholly to prayer. 1890.145 Though infinitely better able to do without prayer than we are, yet he prayed much more than we do. 2281.533 His agony in Gethsemane was a time of the mightiest prayer that was ever heard in heaven, yet it was followed very closely by his death upon the cross. You may abound in prayer, and in thanksgiving, and in patience, and yet, for all that, all God’s waves and billows may roll over you, and you may be brought into the depths of soul trouble. 2722.172 But, brethren, do you not see that, if Christ, who was so strong, needed to pray thus, what need there is for us, who are so weak, also to pray? 3178.7 It is one thing to love persons at a distance, and to have philanthropic desires for their good; it is quite another thing to live with them, and still have the same fondness towards them; and another thing by far to receive bad treatment from them, contumely, and scorn, and a worse thing even than that, to be about to receive your death from them, and still to pray for them. 3558.158