Christian Writers and Preachers

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

—Thomas Aquinas

If we lean upon anything but the arm of God we will be disappointed.

—D. L. Moody

“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.

—D. L. Moody

Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Instead of saying, I would keep away from the assembly of God’s people if I could, the newborn nature wishes like David to dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.”

– Charles Spurgeon

These long and difficult intervals will soon be past for ever, and you will see Him face to face who trusted you to trust through any test, through any interval.

—Amy Carmichael

“We delight to feel that he who has ruled all things for our good does not change.”

— Chalres Spurgeon

“Instead of saying, I would omit prayer if I could, the regenerate mind cries, I wish I could be always praying.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“When it becomes a misery to serve God, then indeed the heart is far away from spiritual health; for when the heart is renewed, it delights to worship and serve the Lord.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Rest in the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and put all your reliance upon him as crucified, risen, and pleading for his people.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Even though you cannot be as holy as you want to be, yet if the ways of holiness are your pleasure, if they are the very element in which you live as much as the fish lives in the sea, then you are the subject of a very wonderful change of heart.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. – C.S. Lewis

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

—John Milton

“The teachings of the New Testament are as sound and true today as they were eighteen hundred years ago.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The application of Christ, by the work of regeneration, is that which yield unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts that they have in Christ, and in all that he has done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.

—John Flavel

Christian experience is rightly used when it helps to convince us that the events narrated in the New Testament actually did occur.

—J. Gresham Machen

If you ‘give all diligence’, his power is armed for your protection, his truth is pledged for your security.

—William Wilberforce

If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.

—John Owen

How comely is it for the humble Christian, with his heart full of holy joy and cheerfulness, to enter into his closet and on his knees offer up his heart, a sacrifice, burning in the flame of love.

—Jonathan Edwards

If, in the righteousness, the goodness, the love, the mercy, the all-sufficiency of God, there be any thing that will do us good, the Lord Jesus is fully interested with the dispensing of it in our behalf.

—John Owen

The great shepherd shall furnish you with food enough, and to spare. Give of your loaves, and you shall take up of the fragments that remain.

—George Whitefield

What is dark within me, illumine.

—John Milton

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!

May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”

— Charles Spurgeon

The work of the Spirit does not only evidence and manifest that difference which God’s election has made between man and man, but it also makes a twofold difference itself; namely in state and temper? whereby they visibly differ, not only from other men, but also from themselves.

—John Flavel

“Even though you fall into sin through the infirmity of your flesh, yet if it causes you intense agony and sorrow it is because God has written his law in your heart.”

– Charles Spurgeon

It is possible to lose ground because of some private refusal to the will of God at the point where it crossed our natural will, and if this happens, the Lord cannot fulfill His purpose in us.

—Amy Carmichael

“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“It is a glorious thing when the heart delights itself in the law of the Lord, and finds therein its solace and pleasure.”

– Charles Spurgeon