Christian Writers and Preachers

Thanks be to God, we do not worship a dead Savior.

—D. L. Moody

“Let us rise and rest with [Christ]. He is sitting on a throne. Observe his majesty, delight in his power, and trust in his dominion.”

– Charles Spurgeon

When He shouted on the cross, “It is finished!” it was the shout of a conqueror. He had overcome every enemy. He had met sin and death. He had met every foe that you and I have got to meet, and had come off victor.

—D. L. Moody

The world is lying in misery, we ourselves are sinners, men are perishing in sin every day. The gospel is the sole means of escape.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Jesus is with us in our solitude,

he is with us in our public assemblies;

but there is one place where he is not; and that is, in the empty tomb.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“If ye then be risen with Christ, live according to your risen nature, for your life is hid with Christ in God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“There he lies silently in the tomb.

He, who is to bruise the old serpent’s’ head, is himself bruised.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Enjoy whatsoever brings glory to God, and promotes peace and goodwill among men.

—John Wesley

While your sins are as deep as the ocean, the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity, and on the ground of Christ’s atoning death there is pardon to-night for the vilest sinner in Bingley Hall, for the vilest sinner on the face of this earth.

—R. A. Torrey

Let me beware, lest I make Christ the minister of sin, by comforting myself too easily when any temptation has prevailed over me, with the reflection, that I have a remedy at hand; it is only to humble myself and implore pardon,and, the promises being sure, to obtain forgiveness.

—William Wilberforce

Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).

—Herman Bavinck

He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.

—John Owen

Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.

—George Whitefield

God’s praise is comely and beautiful because the very business of it is to manifest and show forth the excellency, comeliness, and beauty of God.

—Jonathan Edwards

O blessed be God that I may pray!

—David Brainerd

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

Our Lord has hallowed the ordinary in such a way that no one can ever make it unspiritual.

—Amy Carmichael

“The memorial of Christ’s death is a festival, not a funeral.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“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