Christian Writers and Preachers

Luck is the residue of design.

—John Milton

“We never rest till the Comforter makes us lie down.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”

– Charles Spurgeon

When I think what an aid tobacco is to friendship and Christian patience, I have sometimes regretted that I never began to smoke.

—J. Gresham Machen

“If God takes away the guilt of sin, he is sure at the same time to remove the power of sin.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“This great blessing of pardoned sin is always connected with the renewal of the heart. It is not given because of the change of heart, but it is always given with the change of heart.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

—Thomas Aquinas

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

—John Milton

Do not talk about the love of God until you have realized the enormity of sin and of what you have done against God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If you’re thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you’re embarking on something, which will take the whole of you. – C.S. Lewis

The world is as it is today because sin being what it is, and God being what and who he is, it will inevitably be punished.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Thank God for the one who came to set a liberty those who are bruised. In your pain and your agony, cry out to him, and he will give you the relief.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Whether you like it or not, whether you understand it or not, sin is what you are guilty of in the sight of this holy God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:

1. It exercises our humility.

2. It instructs our faith.

3. It lights us up with joy.

4. It inflames us with love.

5. It inspires us with zeal.

6. It lifts us up towards heaven.

— Charles Spurgeon

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

—John Milton

Oh then pray, pray, be earnest, press forward and follow on to know the Lord.

—William Wilberforce

May he enlighten me more and more, to know and feel the mystery of his electing, soul-transforming love.

—George Whitefield

Tolerance, to me, does not mean merely tolerance for what I hold to be good, but also tolerance for what I hold to be abominably bad.

—J. Gresham Machen

His eyes are pleased with the sight of a thankful heart.

—Jonathan Edwards

God hath committed all his properties into the hand of Christ if I may so say, to be managed in our behalf, and for our good.

—John Owen

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

—John Milton

“Let the temple of my body be the Lord’s.

He has built it and has cleansed it with his blood.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven, Affecting Godhead, and so losing all.

—John Milton

“Salvation by grace, through faith in Jesus, is no dream, no fiction, let sceptics say what they will.”

– Charles Spurgeon

For the Holy Spirit comes in the Father’s and in the Son’s name and authority, to put the last hand to the work of our salvation, by bringing all the fruits of election and redemption home to our souls in this work.

—John Flavel

“My brother said to me, the other day, when he had been seeing one of our members pass away, Brother, we can say to one another what the two Wesleys said, ‘Our people die well.’”

– Charles Spurgeon

“It seems to me a blessed privilege for us to be permitted to love one so great as God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which set bounds to the passions.

—Thomas Aquinas

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

—Thomas Aquinas

They also serve who only stand and wait.

—John Milton