Christian Writers and Preachers

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

My learning does not help me now; neither does my Dogmatics; faith alone saves me.

—Herman Bavinck

It is the Spirit of God alone who can make a person inwardly certain of the truth of divine revelation.

—Herman Bavinck

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

—John Milton

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

Preach the truth as it is in Jesus. Not a righteousness or inward holiness of our own, whereby we may make ourselves meet, but a righteousness of another, even the Lord our righteousness

—George Whitefield

If persons do truly believe in God through the Lord Jesus Christ, no affliction that they meet with shall hurt them.

—Jonathan Edwards