Christian Writers and Preachers

I should almost despair of myself, but for his promises.

—William Wilberforce

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself.

—John Milton

“Can you count the [kingly] drops of his redeeming blood and then go back to live in the iniquity which cost the Lord so dear? Impossible!”

– Charles Spurgeon

[During WWI] I hate war, I am tired of the whole business.

—J. Gresham Machen

“He cannot wilfully offend against such love; on the contrary, he feels himself bound to obey God in return for such unsearchable grace; and thus by a sense of love doth God write his law upon the hearts of his people.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The eternal love of the Father is not the fruit but the fountain of his purchase

—John Owen

We are by our own sin against God plunged into all sorts of evil, and God has provided a remedy for us against every sort of evil, he has left us helpless in no calamity.

—Jonathan Edwards

My Lord has given me a sling and a stone; stripling as I am, I will go forth then in his strength, make mention of his righteousness only, and by that lay prostrate many *Goliaths*.

—George Whitefield

we know absolutely nothing about an atonement that is not a vicarious atonement, for that is the only atonement of which the New Testament speaks.

—J. Gresham Machen

An unsanctified person may relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the gospel, by a misapplication of them to himself. But this is like the joy of a beggar, dreaming he is a king; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still.

—John Flavel

That is really the very height of preaching, when men make themselves nothing and Christ everything.

—D. L. Moody

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

—Thomas Aquinas

“A sense of pardon, of adoption, and of God’s sweet favour both in providence and in grace, must sanctify man.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Bare heights of loneliness, deep valleys of depression, a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sand, what are they to Him? Even there He can refresh us; even there He can renew us.

—Amy Carmichael

I will try to retire at nine or half-past, and every evening give half and hour, or an hour, to secret exercises, endeavouring to raise my mind more, and that it may be more warmed with heavenly fire.

—William Wilberforce

“No man ever became holy by chance.

There must be resolve, a desire, a panting after obedience to God, or else we shall never have it.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Our best performances are so stained with sin that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“So far also we know that one way by which the law is kept written upon a Christian’s heart is this,— a sense of God’s presence.”

– Charles Spurgeon

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered. – C.S. Lewis

But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.

—J. Gresham Machen

But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.

—J. Gresham Machen

“If I know God, and yet live for my own profit, for my own honor, for my own comfort, then I do not glorify God as God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

If we rest in Christ’s atoning work we shall do good works, but they will be the outcome of being saved and the outcome of believing on Christ as our sin-bearer. Our good works will not be the ground of our salvation, but the result of our salvation and the proof of it. 2/2

—R. A. Torrey

It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.

—R. A. Torrey

Never was the harvest greater; never were the labourers fewer.

—George Whitefield

We must be very careful not to mix in our good works at all as the ground of salvation. We are not forgiven because of Christ’s death and our good works, we are forgiven solely because of Christ’s death. 1/2

—R. A. Torrey

Why do such eat and drink and yet refuse to love him who gives them their meat and drink?

—Jonathan Edwards

He both satisfied for sin and procured the promise. He procures all the love and kindness which are the fruits of the covenant, being himself the original promise thereof

—John Owen

“The whole world may reel to and fro like a drunken man but the Rock of Ages stands secure.”

— Charles Spurgeon