Christian Writers and Preachers

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

What in me is dark illumine.

—John Milton

“No man who merely skims the book of God can profit from it.

We must dig and mine until we obtain hidden treasure.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“If God is to write the law upon the heart, the heart must be prepared, and in order to being prepared, it must be entirely renewed by a miracle of mercy, such as can only be wrought by that omnipotent hand which made both heaven and earth.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Whether we like it or not, churches are founded upon a creed; they are organized for the propagation of a message.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Married life is not all sugar,

but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

—John Milton

“When a man admires himself, he never adores God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Help me, O Lord, without Thee I can do nothing.

—William Wilberforce

Surely, dear Sir, the love of CHRIST must constrain us to spend and be spent for the good of souls.

—George Whitefield

The work which has been intrusted to Christ is nothing less than that of reconciling the creation unto God.

—J. Gresham Machen

Let us consider that when we exercise ourselves in God’s praise, we are doing the work of angels and saints in glory.

—Jonathan Edwards

“Because God is the living God, he can hear.

Because he is a loving God, he will hear.”

— Charles Spurgeon