Christian Writers and Preachers

Love follows knowledge.

—Thomas Aquinas

“One of the greatest works of grace in the heart is to humble our pride.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you as surely as you are now alive.”

– Charles Spurgeon

What hath night to do with sleep?

—John Milton

“The case was hopeless until the Lord intervened,

and then all was changed immediately.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

—John Milton

God has by his preventing grace kept me from publicly disgracing the Christian profession. O my soul, praise the Lord, and forget not all his mercies.

—William Wilberforce

Christ manifests and evidences his love to his saints in a *way of bounty*, – in that rich, plentiful provision he makes for them.

—John Owen

It is very proper for us when we have experienced the mercy of God and praise him for that, at the same time to praise him for his other perfections.

—Jonathan Edwards

A man cannot possibly be an “evangelical” or a “conservative” (or, as he himself would say, simply a Christian) and regard the Cross of Christ as a trifle.

—J. Gresham Machen

I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.

—George Whitefield

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

—John Milton

No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.

—D. L. Moody

What we can do and what God can do are two very different things.

— Charles Spurgeon

“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Shall I not, from the very housetops, shout again and again, —

There is life for a look at the Crucified One;

There is life at this moment for thee?”

– Charles Spurgeon

To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.

—John Milton

“Paul took care not to steal an atom of the glory for himself,

but he ascribed all to the power of him who loved him and gave himself for him.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Shall I not tell to others what the grace of God has done for me? Shall I not lay hold of every poor sinner’s hand, and say, Look you to Christ, and you also shall be saved, even as I was?”

– Charles Spurgeon

“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”

– Charles Spurgeon

It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.

—John Flavel

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

—Thomas Aquinas

“The sun may leave us, but our God never ceases to shine upon us.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Be sure, dear friends, to have as your minister a man who lives with God, and walks with God; a man who leans his head on the bosom of Jesus, and then comes forward and speaks what his Master has whispered right into his ear.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Many choose to perish forever rather than trust in God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

[Historic Christianity] provides for the individual a refuge from all the fluctuating currents of human opinion.

—J. Gresham Machen

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

—John Milton

Oh Lord, when I think how little I have done, I am ashamed and confounded, and I would fain honour God more than I have yet done.

—William Wilberforce

What was there in you and in me, that should move GOD to choose us before others? Was there any fitness foreseen in us, except a fitness for damnation? I believe not.

—George Whitefield

Those whose hearts are filled with praise will say, ‘What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits?’

—Jonathan Edwards