Charles Spurgeon Quotes About Prosperity
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Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
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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.
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He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.
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...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.
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The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
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A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.
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In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
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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 a slothfulness in prayer.
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...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.
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