Christian Writers and Preachers

He is grieved when, through *darkness and unbelief*, we will not, do not, receive those consolations which he tenders to us, and which he is abundantly willing that we should receive.

—John Owen

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Deliverance follows prayer most surely.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Oh, to preach Christ in a Christly way, — to tell of mercy in the spirit of mercy, and to preach grace in a truly gracious way!”

– Charles Spurgeon

A cardinal doctrine of modern liberalism is that the world’s evil may be overcome by the world’s good; no help is thought to be needed from outside the world.

—J. Gresham Machen

“[…]go direct to Christ for truth, and you will preach it strongly, honestly, openly, positively, but you will always preach it with love.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

—John Milton

Let us trust him when we cannot see him. Let us put our confidence in him, and he will surely not fail us.

—D. L. Moody

“If Christ was punished for my sins, I can never be punished for them.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

I should do wrong to sacrifice an opportunity of usefulness which is within my reach, in order to qualify myself for a station I am not likely ever to fill.

—William Wilberforce

The things that we love tell us what we are.

—Thomas Aquinas

“The love of Jesus can overcome all adversaries, even death itself.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“[…]there is nothing like going to the Lord Jesus Christ himself as to the well-head of doctrine, and saying to him, Master, what dost thou teach? What can I learn from thee?”

– Charles Spurgeon

Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

—John Milton

There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ – C.S. Lewis

There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’ – C.S. Lewis

“Doctrines in the head, without holiness in the life, are of no service.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Christ pleads the cause of believers by his blood. Unlike other advocates, it is not enough for him to lay out only words, which is a cheaper way of pleading; but he pleads for us by the voice of his own blood (Heb.12:24).

—John Flavel

The law of God exact he shall fulfill Both by obedience and by love, though love Alone fulfil the law: thy punishment He shall endure by coming in the flesh To a reproachful life and cursed death

—John Milton

A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour…

—J. Gresham Machen

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

—Thomas Aquinas

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

—Thomas Aquinas

The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better, than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon.

—George Whitefield

Pardoning mercy is God’s free, gracious acceptance of a sinner upon satisfaction made to his justice in the blood of Jesus

—John Owen

However any may pretend that they thankfully take notice of God’s goodness, it is a vain pretense if they don’t study to please and honor him.

—Jonathan Edwards

“One mark of a man’s true wisdom is his knowledge of his ignorance.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“[Christ] is our salvation, and we shall never put that salvation in tangible, graspable, real form unless we go to him, and get distinctly from himself the message we are to deliver on his behalf.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Above all, we need often to go to Christ, to get from his hand a fresh stock of that gospel provision which we are afterwards to dispense to the people in his name.”

– Charles Spurgeon