Christian Writers and Preachers

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

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