Christian Writers and Preachers

Quotes from C. S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, A. W. Tozer, Herman Bavinck, Amy Carmichael, and others.

Quotes from Christian Writers and Preachers

“You are not to seek your own selfish ends, or the aggrandizement of a party, but to promote the general good, and the interests of truth, righteousness, peace, and purity.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Seek also heavenly objects. Aim at the glory of God in everything.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Preach Christ’s life as much as you will, but never apart from his death.

For it is by his blood that we are redeemed.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Let all men see that you are risen. So live that there can be no more doubt about your spiritual resurrection than there was about Christ’s literal resurrection.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Let us labour after likeness to Christ, that he may be the firstborn among many brethren. Seek to bear the image of the heavenly, and to wear those jewels which adorn heavenly spirits.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If you want to get heavenly wisdom you must pass through God’s college. Do you know where that is? Why, at the feet of Christ.

—D. L. Moody

The strongest proof of God’s love is that He gave Christ to die for our sins. That cross testifies of the love of God for this world.

—D. L. Moody

“Without the death of Jesus, nothing remains for us but death.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Let us seek more faith, more love, more patience, more zeal: let us labour after greater charity, greater brotherly kindness, greater humbleness of spirit.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Christ’s humble birth was but the prelude to a life still more humble, and a death even more abased.”

— Charles Spurgeon

A Christianity that avoids argument is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

—J. Gresham Machen

Oh quicken me in thy righteousness. Give me all holy affections in their just measure of vigour and force.

—William Wilberforce

Own thyself guilty of eternal death; and renounce all hope of ever being able to save thyself. Be it all thy hope, to be washed in His blood, and purified by His Spirit, who Himself bore all thy sins in His own body upon the tree.

—John Wesley

The victory of Calvary was won that night in the garden of Gethsemane. The calm majesty of His bearing in meeting the awful onslaughts of Pilate’s judgment hall and of Calvary was the outcome of the struggle, agony, and victory of Gethsemane.

—R. A. Torrey

Thanks be to God, the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, even the mental infirmity of subjection to interruptions when we least desire them.

—Amy Carmichael

I had great hopes of the ingathering of precious souls to Christ; not only among my own people, but others also.

—David Brainerd

We have exposed ourselves to weariness; God has provided a resting-place for us.

—Jonathan Edwards

Our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. He is a gracious master. Oh that I knew and loved him more! for he is altogether lovely.

—George Whitefield

Now, this *bunch* of hyssop, wherein the blood of purification was prepared for the sprinkling of the unclean, is (unto us) the free promises of Christ.

—John Owen

“Understanding the love of Jesus lifts the mind above all fear.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Oh seek to know on earth the peace of heaven, the rest of heaven, the victory of heaven, the service of heaven, the communion of heaven, the holiness of heaven; you may have foretastes of all these; seek after them.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Christ died”-that is history; “Christ died for our sins”-that is doctrine.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Let us spend our risen life on earth as Jesus spent his,— in a greater seclusion from the world and in greater nearness to heaven than ever.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Are you tried by your sin?

Jesus rose for your justification.

Does Satan accuse?

Jesus rose to be your advocate.

Do infirmities hinder?

The living Christ will show himself strong on your behalf.

Do you dread death?

Jesus has vanquished the last enemy.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Our Jesus lives, and because he lives we shall live also, world without end.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Farewell, thou deadly love of sin; we have done with thee! Farewell, dead world, corrupt world; we have done with thee! Christ has raised us. Christ has given us eternal life.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The Lord Jesus loves his people so much, that every day he is still washing thier soiled feet.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“So that by virtue of our rising in Christ we have received life and have become the subjects of a wondrous change,— old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Don’t let infidelity come in and make us believe that God has got a deaf ear and cannot answer, or that His arm is shortened and He cannot deliver. Our God is a prayer-answering God.

—D. L. Moody

“Sin and sorrow cannot be divorced.

Holiness and happiness cannot be separated.”

— Charles Spurgeon