Christian Writers and Preachers

“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

“Dwell with us, Lord, as a church and people: by thy Holy Spirit reside with us and in us, and never depart from us, and then no root of bitterness shall spring up to trouble us.”

– Charles Spurgeon

That our feelings do not correspond with our judgments, is one of the strongest proofs of our depravity and of the double man within us.

—William Wilberforce

“So, if we are afraid that the devil should get in among us let us always in prayer entreat that there may be no space for the devil, because the Lord Jesus Christ fills all, and keeps out the adversary.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half.

—John Milton

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

—Thomas Aquinas

“In the empty tomb of Christ, we see sin forever put away and death destroyed.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man.

—J. Gresham Machen

Silence was pleased.

—John Milton

The Lord Jesus Christ, with all his precious benefits, becomes ours, by God’s special and effectual application.

—John Flavel

Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.

—Jonathan Edwards

GOD forbid, my dear brother, that we should shun to declare the whole counsel of GOD.

—George Whitefield

Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.

—Jonathan Edwards