Christian Writers and Preachers

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

With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.

—John Flavel

See how our LORD’s sheep are scattered abroad, having too, too few true shepherds; I beseech you, go on, and point out to them the Redeemer’s good pastures.

—George Whitefield

He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.

—John Owen

Since praise is so comely a thing, let all be exhorted to praise God.

—Jonathan Edwards

He who has communion with Christ, when he is *highest in duties of sanctification and holiness, is clearest in the apprehension of his own unprofitableness*, and rejects every thought that might arise in his heart of setting is peace in them, or upon them.

—John Owen

But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

—John Milton

There is never a fear that has not a corresponding Fear not.

—Amy Carmichael

“We must have the Word of the Lord.

With this Word alone we can withstand the devil.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is gospel, good news for all creatures, not a proclamation of destruction and death, but of resurrection and life.

—Herman Bavinck

While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.

—Herman Bavinck

“Tablets of stone, though apparently durable, can readily enough be broken, and so can God’s commands; so are they indeed broken every day by us, and those who have the clearest knowledge of the will of God nevertheless offend against him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The whole of life, including business and all of social relations, must be obedient to the law of love.

—J. Gresham Machen