Christian Writers and Preachers

“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

To save sinners through believing, shall be found to be a far more admirable work than to create the world from nothing.

—John Owen

They who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.

—John Milton

Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.

—Thomas Aquinas

It has been a great comfort to me to realize anew that it is God and only God we need.

—Amy Carmichael

“Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Our Lord has died for us, and surely we must not deny Him for favor of men.

—J. Gresham Machen

Although it is easy to deceive one another and to be deceived by others, there is one thing we cannot do – we cannot deceive God.

—D. L. Moody

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Infinite power shall stoop that you may lean upon its shoulder.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Above all, sooner forget your Christian name, than forget to eye Christ!

—John Wesley

“One has a work given him of God to do, and if he does it rightly he cannot do it carelessly.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Here is the history of the grass:

1. Sown

2. Grown

3. Blown

4. Mown

5. Gone;

and the history of man is not much more.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.

—William Wilberforce

Man should not consider his material possessions as his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

—Thomas Aquinas

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him. – C.S. Lewis

“And so, since Jesus is tutor and university to us, let us feel that we are bound to reflect credit upon so great a teacher, upon so divine a name.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The Lord loves to use tools which are not rusted with self-conceit.”

— Charles Spurgeon

When Christ died, the ransom was prepared, the sum laid down; but yet the elect continue still in sin and misery, until, by effectual calling it be actually applied to their persons, and then they are made free, reconciled by Christ’s death, by whom we have now rec’d atonement.

—John Flavel