Christian Writers and Preachers

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

We must meditate daily, prayerfully, profoundly upon the Word if we are to maintain power. Many a man has run dry through its neglect.

Psalm 1:1-2

—R. A. Torrey

After prayer comes peace—the first answer to prayer is the peace of God which passeth all understanding.

—Amy Carmichael

‘Why, this is mine,’ says Christ; ‘this agreement I made with my Father, that I should come, and take thy sins, and bear them away: they were my lot. Give me thy *burden*, give me all thy *sins*..’

—John Owen

“The devil, the world, and the temptations of life, would soon erase out of the heart all that God had written there if he did not create it anew with the faculty of holding fast that which is good.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“God must melt the heart, must transform it from granite into flesh; and he has the power to do it.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“May the Lord cause his Word to prove its power in us by its making us fruitful unto every good work to do his will.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Blessed be the name of our gracious God, he knows how to erase the evil and to cleanse the soul through his Holy Spirit’s applying the work of Jesus to us.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If the devil cannot make a man feel that he is good enough without being saved, then he will tell him he is so bad the Lord will have nothing to do with him.

—D. L. Moody

I do not believe that there is any true revival that is not brought about by a good deal of prayer.

—D. L. Moody

“The God who can take away the spots from the leopard, and the blackness from the Ethiopian, can also remove the evil lines which now deface the heart.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Trample underfoot the world, and the things of the world; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead; but follow thou after the image of God.

—John Wesley

“Hold everything earthly with a loose hand;

but grasp eternal things with a deathlike grip.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”

– Charles Spurgeon

When Christ died, he died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world. – C.S. Lewis

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.

—Thomas Aquinas

To have faith in Christ means to cease trying to win God’s favor by one’s own character.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Christ’s eyes never slumber,

his hands never rest,

and his shoulders are never weary of carrying his people’s burdens.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Trifle not then, O my soul, with thy immortal interests. Heaven is not to be won without labour.

—William Wilberforce