Christian Writers and Preachers

Give Him all your heart! Let all that is within you continually cry out, Thou art my God, and I will thank Thee; Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee.

—John Wesley

Some of us are like Peter, Silver and gold have I none. But we have other things: for example, books. Am I sharing my books and what I read in them? Am I sharing every joy I can?

—Amy Carmichael

It looked impossible. But we have not to look at things from a human point of view, so that did not matter, and we reckon on God who is at home in impossibilities.

—Amy Carmichael

He cannot, at one and the same time, follow his own will, and follow the will of God: He must choose the one or the other; denying God’s will, to follow his own; or denying himself, to follow the will of God.

—John Wesley

If you resolve and design to follow Christ, you are fit to approach the Lord’s table.

—John Wesley

I have wasted my time alas! O may I make a better use of it and from purer motives.

—William Wilberforce

He is the God of tomorrow as well as of today.

—Amy Carmichael

How astonishingly little do we know of God!—How small a part of his nature do we know of his essential attributes!

—John Wesley

Lo! God is here! not afar off. Now believe and feel him near!

—John Wesley

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and all His wisdom, and power, and faithfulness are engaged on thy side.

—John Wesley

So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.

—Amy Carmichael

Among those who believe themselves to be orthodox Christians, [is] a deplorable ignorance of the religion they profess, an utter forgetfulness of the peculiar doctrines by which it is characterised

—William Wilberforce

Oh speak and spare not, whatever thou believest may conduce, either to the amending my faults, the strengthening my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit, in any kind, for the Master’s use!

—John Wesley

Should not the very difficulties, the sense of the impregnable, impossible, send us to our knees, and then out to the battle front?

—Amy Carmichael

I don’t think we can ever count on thread being supplied for a pattern He has not planned. Our prayer must be, Protect me from mistaking my desire for Your direction.

—Amy Carmichael

O the grace and mercy of Christ which are still ready for me, a poor persevering sinner, who have so long trifled with the concerns of my soul’s salvation.

—William Wilberforce

Happy, happy souls! which the grace of God has visited, ‘has brought out of darkness into his marvellous light’, and ‘from the power of Satan unto God’.

—William Wilberforce

Whosoever thou art, to whom God hath given to be poor in spirit, to feel thyself lost, thou hast a right thereto, through the gracious promise of Him who cannot lie. It is purchased for thee by the blood of the Lamb.

—John Wesley

Oh may God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, so shine through us now, that something of Him may be seen and felt by the people pressing around us!

—Amy Carmichael

Let me not be governed by frames and feelings but cherish a resolute determination for God and desire to serve him.

—William Wilberforce

There is a tremendously uplifting power in joy. Perhaps that is why there is so much about it in the Bible.

—Amy Carmichael

Whatever the means of our perfecting may be, they come by way of His hand.

—Amy Carmichael

We follow no men any farther than they are followers of Christ.

—John Wesley

And from the time we are accepted through the Beloved, reconciled to God through His blood, He loves, and blesses, and watches over us for good, even as if we had never sinned.

—John Wesley

O may I grow in the fear and love of God and Christ and may I be an habitation of God through the Spirit, 1 Cor 6:1.

—William Wilberforce

Ours is a God who delivers, not from the hour of trial, but out of it, out of its power; and in the bearing up under it, not in the sliding out from beneath it, there is strength and victory.

—Amy Carmichael

O God, how little do I deserve all ye honour thou puttest upon me, but may I be more active in thy service and live more by faith, doing all to the glory of God, and in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through him.

—William Wilberforce

We know that the temptation to fear is a very old one; millions of people have had it. But they have conquered, and so will you, if you take our Saviour’s words of strength to yourself, and stay yourself on them.

—Amy Carmichael

Do not forget what Christmas cost Him—Gethsemane and Calvary.

—Amy Carmichael

The religious system of the bulk of nominal Christians is satisfied with some appearance of virtue

—William Wilberforce