Christian Writers and Preachers

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

“It is all well with Christ’s cause because it is in his own hands. He shall not fail nor be discouraged. The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine.

—J. Gresham Machen

*True Christians* consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude.

—William Wilberforce

“[Christ’s] face is the sun, and his countenance scatters those health-giving beams, and nurturing warmths, and perfecting influences which are needful for maturing the saints in all the sweetness of grace to the glory of God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now? – C.S. Lewis

Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.

—Thomas Aquinas

It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old.

—Thomas Aquinas

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities, infused by the Spirit into the soul, which are the principles of all holy actions.

—John Flavel

Speak every time, my dear brother, as if it was your last; weep out, if possible, every argument, and as it were compel them to cry, Behold how he loveth us.

—George Whitefield

Believers are unacquainted with their own condition, if they look upon their mercies as dispensed in a way of common providence.

—John Owen

[Christianity] transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story…

—J. Gresham Machen

There is quiet rest and sweet refreshment in Christ for those that are wearied with persecutions.

—Jonathan Edwards

Men don’t like to have Christ preached faithfully; but it is just what they don’t like to have that we must give them. I learned that long ago. The very truths that men object to, and that make them angry, are the truths that bring them to the cross of Christ.

—D. L. Moody

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

—John Milton

But fight though it is, the battle is the Lord’s, and victory will come with the Morning.

It is not Morning yet.

—Amy Carmichael

O be not wiser than your Master! Follow His advice and do not reason against it!

—John Wesley

“There is no fear of our not being watered when Jesus undertakes to do it. He will pour water on him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

—Thomas Aquinas