Christian Writers and Preachers

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

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me.

—J. Gresham Machen

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

—Thomas Aquinas

If the soul flies to Jesus Christ, they may find rest in him, for he came into the world to destroy Satan, and to rescue souls out of his hands.

—Jonathan Edwards

Faith will set you up above the fear of man, and enable you to rejoice in being accounted a fool for CHRIST’s sake.

—George Whitefield

We have not a deliverance from trouble, a recovering of health, ease of pain, freedom from any evil that ever laid hold upon us, but it is given us on the intercession of Jesus Christ.

—John Owen

Oh to care with a deeper caring—to pray with diviner power!

—Amy Carmichael

The reason why so many of our prayers go unanswered is that we are not right ourselves.

—D. L. Moody

“Bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards.”

— Charles Spurgeon

By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.

—John Wesley

“Depend upon it, happiness lives next door to the spirit of complete acquiescence in the will of God, and it will be easy to exercise that perfect acquiescence when we suppose the Lord Jesus to be the gardener.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Heresies always come from gentlemen at ease who take no actual part in our holy war.”

— Charles Spurgeon

There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics.

—J. Gresham Machen