Christian Writers and Preachers

“No subject will tend more to humble the mind than thoughts of God.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“I would earnestly urge all Christian workers to be sure to get some time alone for the prayerful study of the Word. The more of such time that you can get, the better will it be both for yourself and for others.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding.

—J. Gresham Machen

If it should ever please God to call me to any situation of power, or to any higher eminence, which I do not expect, he would furnish me with the talents necessary for the discharge of its duties.

—William Wilberforce

“There are some of us who are called to spend our whole lives in our Master’s service; and unless we are often alone with him, listening to the message he has for us to deliver, our streams will not continue to run.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Friendship makes you feel as one with your friend.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Who knows what is good for us?

God does, and that is better than for us to know.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right; Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

—John Milton

When all the elect are brought home in a reconciled state in Christ, when the marriage of the Lamb is come, our work and office expire together.

—John Flavel

“A man may go to College, he may learn all about the letter of Scripture, but he is no minister of God if he has not sat at [Christ’s] feet, and learned of him[…]”

– Charles Spurgeon

You must ask for God’s help. … After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. – C.S. Lewis

“The surest road to our own happiness is to seek the good of others.”

— Charles Spurgeon

In Christ, justice and mercy embrace, suffering is the road to glory, the cross points to a crown, and the timber of the cross becomes the tree of life.

—Herman Bavinck

Better to illuminate than merely to shine to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

—Thomas Aquinas

The principal thing wherein praise in our behavior consists, and which is most acceptable to God, is a cheerful obedience.

—Jonathan Edwards

The great aim and scope at all Christ’s ordinances and officers, are to bring men into union with Christ, and so build them up to perfection in him; or to unite them to, and confirm them in Christ.

—John Flavel

All that can stand in competition with him for our affections, must be our own endeavours for a righteousness to commend us to God.

—John Owen

I hope we shall catch fire from each other, and that there will be an holy emulation amongst us, who shall most debase man and exalt the LORD JESUS. Only the doctrines of the Reformation can do this.

—George Whitefield

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