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Prayer
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Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality. Some people pray a long time, but do not get what they are supposed to ask for, because they do not plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way. If you were to go into a bank, and stand an hour talking to the clerk, and then come out again without your cash, what would be the good of it? If I go to a bank, I pass my cheque across the counter, take up my money, and go about my business: that is the best way of praying. Ask for what you want, because the Lord has
promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered. It is not the length of your prayer, but the strength of your prayer which wins with God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you have pleaded before the Lord.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon, According to Promise (or: The Lord's Method of Dealing with His Chosen People)
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Pride
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None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Prophecy
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We are all at times unconscious prophets.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Sincerity
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Success & Failure
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The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Suffering
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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Trust
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Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Wisdom
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Wish, Wishes, Wishing
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The wishing gate opens into nothing.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Worry
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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Books by and about C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon