Christian Writers and Preachers

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

The generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevoured, merely on the account of the intercession of the Lord Jesus.

—John Owen

The truth is that the Bible’s picture of Jesus possesses a wonderful unity.

—J. Gresham Machen

To love is to will the good of the other.

—Thomas Aquinas

Then only is God praised when the heart is lifted up to God with love, joy, and wonder for what it sees in him and receives from him with a desire of expressing it to him.

—Jonathan Edwards

Talk to them, oh talk to them, even until midnight, of the riches of his all-sufficient grace.

—George Whitefield

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

—Thomas Aquinas

If a man is full of the Holy Spirit, then there is no room for the world, there is no room for self.

—D. L. Moody

Our God DOES satisfy. I think sometimes He has to draw us into strange experiences in order that we shall prove Him to the uttermost, for some purpose out of sight.

—Amy Carmichael

“Let us believe great things from the work of Christ by his Spirit in the midst of his people’s hearts, and we shall not be disappointed.”

– Charles Spurgeon

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

—Thomas Aquinas

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler.

—John Milton

Surely, you can never praise God enough for all these blessings, so plentifully showered down upon you, till you praise Him with angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven!

—John Wesley