If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Do nothing on which you cannot pray for a blessing. Every action of a Christian that is good, is sanctified by the word and prayer. It becomes not a Christian to do anything so trivial, that he cannot pray over it.
—John Wesley
But they put it on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house: in like manner, it is the design of God that every Christian should be in an open point of view; that he may give light to all around, that he may visibly express the religion of Jesus Christ.
—John Wesley
…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christianity is no less than the real, supreme work of the Triune God, in which the Father reconciles his created but fallen world through the death of his Son and re-creates it through his Spirit into the kingdom of God.
—Herman Bavinck
AW Tozer:
“As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known & loved.
God spoke to me through a street preacher who quoted the words of Jesus, “Come unto me, all ye that labour & are heavy laden & I will give you rest.”
O what reason of thankfulness have I on account of this retirement! I find that I do not, and it seems I cannot, lead a Christian life when I am abroad, and cannot spend time in devotion, Christian conversation, and serious meditation, as I should do.
—David Brainerd
In whatever class or order of society Christianity prevails, she sets herself to rectify the particular faults, or, if we would speak more distinctly, to counteract the particular mode of selfishness, to which that class is liable.
—William Wilberforce
The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence. Imagination, and taste, and genius, and the beauties of creation, and the works of art, lie open to him.
—William Wilberforce
Christian doctrine lies at the very roots of faith.
—J. Gresham Machen
This is the solution of what to a man of the world might seem a strange paradox, that in proportion as the Christian grows in grace, he grows also in humility.
—William Wilberforce
Christian laypeople must be encouraged to be leaders in their fields, rather than eager-to-please followers…
—J. Gresham Machen
According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal Church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.
—J. Gresham Machen
A Christianity that avoids argument is not the Christianity of the New Testament.
—J. Gresham Machen
The confession of the Trinity is the core and the main element of the entire Christian religion. Without it, neither creation, nor redemption, nor sanctification can be purely maintained.
—Herman Bavinck
[Christianity] bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism… is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
“To live for a political party is unworthy of a man who professes to be a Christian.”
“The resurrection of our divine Lord from the dead is the corner-stone of Christian doctrine.”
– Charles Spurgeon
But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.
—J. Gresham Machen
But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.
—J. Gresham Machen
Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur.
—J. Gresham Machen
How comely is it for the humble Christian, with his heart full of holy joy and cheerfulness, to enter into his closet and on his knees offer up his heart, a sacrifice, burning in the flame of love.
—Jonathan Edwards
As a boy, I was not a Christian. I did not have the privilege of growing up in a home where Christ was known and loved. God spoke to me through a street preacher who quoted the words of Jesus, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
—AW Tozer
When I think what an aid tobacco is to friendship and Christian patience, I have sometimes regretted that I never began to smoke.
—J. Gresham Machen
If you’re thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you’re embarking on something, which will take the whole of you. – C.S. Lewis
The very existence of the Christian church is a mighty testimony to the resurrection of our Lord.
—J. Gresham Machen
God has by his preventing grace kept me from publicly disgracing the Christian profession. O my soul, praise the Lord, and forget not all his mercies.
—William Wilberforce
A man cannot possibly be an “evangelical” or a “conservative” (or, as he himself would say, simply a Christian) and regard the Cross of Christ as a trifle.
—J. Gresham Machen
[Historic Christianity] provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion.
—J. Gresham Machen