Christian Writers and Preachers

Christ calls, and they come forth, the call being accompanied with life and power.

—John Owen

“If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going there yourself.”

— Charles Spurgeon

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

—Thomas Aquinas

The happy man in this life needs friends.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Is it not a glorious thing, that God’s strength should be perfect in our weakness?”

– Charles Spurgeon

“God, you are not only the greatest source of joy but you are all our joy.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“A precious Christ makes us precious: such honour have all the saints.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Children can learn the Bible as soon as they are capable of understanding anything.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Christianity] bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism… is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.

—J. Gresham Machen

“If ye then be risen with Christ ye walk in newness of life, while the world abideth in death.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The more we know God, the more we shall love him.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Christ is your life; such a life as you never knew before, nor could have known apart from him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Half-hearted worshippers are an insult to God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

If you die in your sins, there is not in the Bible one ray of hope to show that there will be opportunity to repent hereafter. Now is the accepted time of salvation.

—D. L. Moody

During life all has gone well with me, so far as God has ordered matters, and all the evil has been the result of my own follies.

—William Wilberforce

The death of sin is procured by, and discovered in, the death of Christ

—John Owen

We by sin have brought upon ourselves a miserable slavery and bondage; God has made provision for our liberty.

—Jonathan Edwards

How happy is it, when all are of one mind in a house; all agreed to entertain and love the Lord Jesus. Their heaven is begun on earth.

—George Whitefield

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

—J. Gresham Machen

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

—John Milton

“To live for a political party is unworthy of a man who professes to be a Christian.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Now, beloved, you are new creatures, the produce of a second birth, begotten again in Christ Jesus unto newness of life.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“You have been quickened by God according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenlies.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Let us cast off the graveclothes of our former lusts, and wear the garments of light and life.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Oh, my brethren, believers in Jesus, you are not spiritually dead any longer; on Christ you have believed, and that grand act proves that you are no more dead.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“We lay in our death quite unable to raise ourselves therefrom; ours were eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear; a heart that could not love; and a withered hand that could not be stretched out to give the touch of faith.”

– Charles Spurgeon

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis

“For, first, we were dead in trespasses and sins, but having believed in Christ we have been quickened by the Holy Ghost, and we are dead no longer.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Where the most eloquent exhortation fails, the simple story of an event succeeds; the lives of men are transformed by a piece of news.

—J. Gresham Machen

If Satan, therefore, shall come to any believer and say, ‘What about your sin?’

tell him Jesus died for it, and your sin is put away.

— Charles Spurgeon