A Quote by Charles Spurgeon

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Charles Spurgeon

Quote Topics

Length Measured Prayer True Weight

Quote Author

Charles Spurgeon
British - Priest
June 19, 1834 - January 31, 1892

...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.

Charles Spurgeon

To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.

Percy Williams Bridgman

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

Alexander Whyte

Length of years is no proper test of length of life. A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it and what he feels in it.

Samuel Smiles

That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.

Frederick William Robertson

Life is not measured by its length, but by its depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.

Gabrielle Zevin

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Haruki Murakami

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

Cesar Chavez

Prayer and Theology are inseparable. True Theology is the adoration offered by the intellect. The intellect clarifies the moment of prayer, but only prayer can give it the fervor of the Spirit. Theology is light, prayer is fire.

Olivier Clement

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

Christian Nestell Bovee

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

T.A. Barron

I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.