Christian Writers and Preachers

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

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

—Thomas Aquinas

Let me pray for all my fellow-creatures, for all that are in pagan ignorance, particularly for the poor negroes, both in Africa the the West Indies. O Lord, do Thou at length visit them with spiritual blessings and a termination of their temporal sufferings. Amen.

—William Wilberforce

The application of Christ to the soul effectually, though it be so far wrought in the first saving work of the Spirit, as truly to unite the soul to Christ: yet it is a work gradually advancing in the believer’s soul, whilst it abides on this side heaven and glory.

—John Flavel

Let me meditate awhile on the majesty and holiness of God.

—William Wilberforce

All sin at bottom is a sin against God. “Against thee, thee only have I sinned” is the cry of a true penitent. How terrible is the sin against God!

—J. Gresham Machen

Faith . . . reaches out in a single act to the person of Christ as well as to Scripture. It embraces Christ as Savior and Scripture as the word of God.

—Herman Bavinck