Christian Writers and Preachers

Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.

—D. L. Moody

The modern liberals, on the other hand, say that Jesus is God not because they think high of Jesus, but because they think desperately low of God.

—J. Gresham Machen

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

—John Milton

How blessed it is to grow more and more like God.

—David Brainerd

“The message of the gospel is applied by Christ directly and distinctly to our own soul.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“You shall know that he is with you, you shall be sure of it, for his life shall touch your life, his spirit shall flood and overflood your spirit; and then, but not till then, shall you be fit to speak in his name.”

– Charles Spurgeon

There are always chances for strengthening one another’s hands in God; let us not lose our chances.

—Amy Carmichael

“Christ died, but he is not dead now. He is risen; he has gone up into his glory; he sits upon the throne of God; but, at the same time, by a very real spiritual presence he is with all his people, as he said to his disciples[…]”

– Charles Spurgeon

Learn the importance of every moment, which just appears, and is gone for ever!

—John Wesley

“[…]Christ is still alive, and still with his people, still conversing with his chosen ones, still by his Divine Spirit speaking out of his very heart into the hearts of his true disciples.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Mine, against which however in its risings I struggle, and which I strive to suppress, is a sadly depraved appetite, rooted in an inordinate love of this world.

—William Wilberforce

“We do not want to go to heaven alone; we are most anxious to lead others to the Saviour.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

—Thomas Aquinas

To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere. – C.S. Lewis

A deadly vagueness gradually affects the church’s witness.

—J. Gresham Machen

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.

—Thomas Aquinas

What is just and reasonable is comely and beautiful.

—Jonathan Edwards

He avenges his elect that cry unto him; yea, he doth is speedily.

—John Owen

Perhaps my enemies may have so much power given them from above, as to confine my body: but if I am bound, the word of the LORD will not be bound.

—George Whitefield

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

—Thomas Aquinas

What the Apostle is concerned to deny is any intrusion of human merit into the work by which salvation is obtained.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Oh, to be found in him! God grant we may be! To be plants in his garden, supposing him to be the gardener, is all the heaven we can desire.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Sanctification notes an holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the temples of the living, God, separate from all profane sinful practices, to the Lord’s only use and service.

—John Flavel

God alone is the Author of life; and if you are to be born again, it must be God’s work. You cannot save yourself.

—D. L. Moody

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Since he is the author and finisher of our faith, to what perfection will he conduct us, and to what glory will he bring us!”

– Charles Spurgeon

I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion, religious meditation, Scripture reading, etc. Hence I am lean, and cold, and hard.

—William Wilberforce

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. – C.S. Lewis

“Supposing him to be the gardener, and God to come and walk among the trees of the garden, then I expect he will remove the whole of the garden upward with himself to fairer skies; for he rose, and his people must rise with him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

—Thomas Aquinas