Extracts from an address to ministers and students by C. H. Spurgeon first published in 1900 more recently republished by The Banner of Truth in 1960 An all round Ministry.
Issue: Issue 4
The prayer that wants a good aim, wants a good issue. Thomas Watson
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. Thomas Brooks
Where God hath not a mouth to speak, men must not have a tongue to ask. Christopher Nesse
Nature’s praying is a pool that will dry up in a long drought. Thomas Boston
Prayer is the key of heaven, faith is the hand that turns it. Thomas Watson
God wrestled with Jacob with desire to be conquered. Thomas Fuller
All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. Stephen Charnock
SPIRITUAL REVIVING All who are spiritually minded will have to make the sad confession that they are so often in need of spiritual reviving. The constant downward drag of their own sinful tendencies, the attacks of the devil, and the deadening influence of the world and the ‘cares of this life’, has its inevitable effect. …
A sermon preached by Mr. D. G. Crowter on Sunday morning 11th March 1990 at Gower St. Memorial Chapel London.