Christian Writers and Preachers

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

O God, do thou by Christ enlighten me and quicken me.

—William Wilberforce

O may my time, my fortune, my understanding, and all my talents be more diligently improved, but may the one thing needful be the grand concern with me, and let not my heart be overcharged with lusts of other things.

—William Wilberforce

But we have a God to whom we can go at any minute, the weakest minute, the darkest minute, at midnight. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress (Ps. 71:3).

—Amy Carmichael

Milner has now been reading Baxter’s sermon on self examination to us, a truly humbling one to me.

—William Wilberforce

I humbly trust I have humbled myself before God and come to him through Christ and though my heart be so hard and cold and inconstant yet I will humbly trust that his mercy will be extended, even to me.

—William Wilberforce

There is no need to be overcome, whatever happens. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength (Judg. 5:21).

—Amy Carmichael

O may I be enabled to live more a life of faith and diligent and active devotedness to God’s service.

—William Wilberforce

O strengthen my weakness. Bear with my infirmities, draw me and I will run after thee.

—William Wilberforce

Wealth and luxury produce stagnation, and stagnation terminates in death.

—William Wilberforce

Change me. Renew me. O Christ hear me. I go to prayer.

—William Wilberforce

I go to prayer, humbly throwing myself on the promised mercies of God in Christ.

—William Wilberforce

How eventful a life has mine been, and how visibly I can trace the hand of God, guiding and leading me by ways which I knew not.

—William Wilberforce