Christian Writers and Preachers

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

Oh that I were more thankful! My ingratitude should humble me in the dust.

—William Wilberforce

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear.

—John Milton

My friends, let us take God at His word. Let us try Him. Let us prove Him. We will find that God is true.

—D. L. Moody

Do not slumber or sleep, but be always trimming your spiritual lamp, knowing you are shortly to meet the bridegroom.

—George Whitefield

We by sin have made ourselves poor, needy creatures; but God has provided for us gold tried in the fire.

—Jonathan Edwards

The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.

—John Owen

“The resurrection blessing is to be perfected by-and-by at the appearing of our Lord and Saviour, for then our bodies shall rise again, if we fall asleep before his coming.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“[Christ] was our hostage and our representative, and when he came forth from his bonds, we came forth in him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.

—William Wilberforce

“It is because we are in Christ that we become partakers of everything that Christ,— we are circumcised with him, dead with him, buried with him, risen with him, because we cannot be separated from him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Every first day of the week we should meditate upon the rising of our Lord, and seek to enter into fellowship with him in his risen life.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The resurrection of our divine Lord from the dead is the corner-stone of Christian doctrine.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. – C.S. Lewis

Ah, people are so patronizing in the presence of Jesus today. They say such kind, polite things about him.

—J. Gresham Machen

It is sweet to know and preach, the Christ justifies the ungodly, and that all truly good works are not so much as partly the cause, but the *effect* of our justification before God.

—George Whitefield

That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.

—John Owen

That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.

—John Owen

That he is doubtless ready enough to pity us under temptations, we may be assured, for he has been tempted and buffeted by Satan as well as we.

—Jonathan Edwards