Christian Writers and Preachers

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

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. – C.S. Lewis

[Jesus] was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.

—J. Gresham Machen

We pray with boldness.

Not the boldness of the rebel who carries a brazen front in the presence of his offended king, but the boldness of the child who fears because he loves, and loves because he fears.

— Charles Spurgeon

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

—John Milton

I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.

—William Wilberforce

When we bring the Church down to the level of the world to reach the world, we are losing all the while and grieving the Spirit of God.

—D. L. Moody

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

—Thomas Aquinas

It is most reasonable that we should praise and bless him and give thanks to him.

—Jonathan Edwards

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.

—Thomas Aquinas

We are not freed from obedience, as a way of walking with God, but we are, as a way of working to come to him

—John Owen

I pray daily, that I may know his will more perfectly, not only that I may do it myself, but that I may teach it to others.

—George Whitefield

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

—John Milton