Christian Writers and Preachers

“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

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