Christian Writers and Preachers

And so I believe that the way of peace is found in looking on to the End of the Lord, not in puzzling over the beginning or the middle of His ways.

—Amy Carmichael

Are you sure of living threescore years? Are you sure of living one year, one month, one week, one day? O make haste to live! Surely the man that may die tonight should live today.

—John Wesley

Have we a bitter zeal, inciting us to strive sharply and passionately with them that are out of the way? Or is our zeal the flame of love, so as to direct all our words with sweetness, lowliness, and meekness of wisdom?

—John Wesley

Freely give means to give lavishly. What do I need today? Strength? Peace? Patience? Heavenly joy? Industry? Good temper? Power to help others? Inward contentment? Courage? Whatever it be, my God will lavish it upon me.

—Amy Carmichael

God make us all obedient like His sun and moon and stars, and help us to shine gladly to Him who made us.

—Amy Carmichael

If Jesus built a ship,

She would travel trim;

If Jesus roofed a barn,

No leaks would be left by Him;

If Jesus planted a garden,

He would make it like Paradise;

If Jesus did my day’s work,

It would delight His Father’s eyes.

—Amy Carmichael

And in the one kind or the other, every follower of Christ will surely have need to take up his cross daily.

—John Wesley

Weep with them that weep. If you can do no more, at least mix your tears with theirs; and give them healing words, such as may calm their minds, and mitigate their sorrows.

—John Wesley

For with the Redeemer’s birth, peace, and all kind of happiness, come down to dwell on earth: yea, the overflowings of Divine good will and favour are now exercised toward men.

—John Wesley

I have a Savior; though I sought

Through earth and air and sea,

I could not find a word, a thought,

To show Him worthily.

But planted here in rock and moss

I see the Sign of utmost loss;

I hear a word—On Calvary’s Cross

Love gave Himself for thee.

—Amy Carmichael

You know that in seeking happiness from riches, you are only striving to drink out of empty cups. And let them be painted and gilded ever so finely, they are empty still.

—John Wesley

Oh to know our God so well that all misunderstandings shall be quite impossible! Paul meant a good deal when he said, That I may know Him (Phil. 3:10)

—Amy Carmichael

Take up your cross daily: Regard no pain, if it lies in your way to him.

—John Wesley

O God, how unsearchable are thy judgments or counsels! Too deep to be fathomed by our reason: and thy ways of executing those counsels not to be traced by our wisdom!

—John Wesley

Thou art my Stony Rock

Thou standest very high,

And yet Thou art accessible,

My God, yea very nigh:

A thought, a wish, an infant’s cry,

And I, in Thee, am set on high.

—Amy Carmichael

If you truly fear God, you need fear none beside.

—John Wesley

One more, I exhort you that fear God and work righteousness, you that are servants of God.

—John Wesley

What is their power, my Lord, to Thee?

Shadows of fear, oh, flee away;

I hear my Captain calling me—

Where is the night? ’Tis dawn, ’tis day.

—Amy Carmichael

God regards his meanest creatures much; but he regards man much more.

—John Wesley

God is patient to wait, but I think we sometimes try to use His patience as a cover for our slackness.

—Amy Carmichael

Allowing that the whole creation now groaneth together under the sin of man, our comfort is, it will not always groan: God will arise and maintain His own cause; and the whole creation shall then be delivered both from moral and natural corruption.

—John Wesley

Persecution never did, never could, give any lasting wound to genuine Christianity.

—John Wesley

There was no room for them in the inn — Now also, there is seldom room for Christ in an inn.

—John Wesley

It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.

—Amy Carmichael

Religion is an higher and deeper thing than any outward ordinance whatever.

—John Wesley

Let us bear a faithful testimony, in our several stations, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness, and with all our might recommend that inward and outward holiness without which no man shall see the Lord!

—John Wesley

An hour at the foot of the Cross steadies the soul as nothing else can.

—Amy Carmichael

Nothing is impossible to him that believeth: You can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth you. Do valiantly; and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free.

—John Wesley

Our feelings do not affect God’s facts.

—Amy Carmichael

Lest I should faint before the race be run,

Lest I should quail before the fight be won,

O heavenly Intercessor and my Lord,

Fulfill to me Thy comfortable word—

Thy Peter’s word. How can I be afraid

If Thou dost say to me, But I have prayed?

—Amy Carmichael