Christian Writers and Preachers

That which unites all true Christians is always more than that which separates them.

—Herman Bavinck

Intensity of prayer is no criterion of its effectiveness. A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord & yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.

—AW Tozer

All things else being equal, the praying man is less likely to think wrong than the man who neglects to pray.

—AW Tozer

The triune God produces all things in creation and new creation by His Word and Spirit. All things thus speak to us of God.

—Herman Bavinck

The spiritual man would rather be useful than famous & would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.

—AW Tozer

The human soul is not a hard-baked vessel with a fixed size; it is a living thing capable of growth & expansion as it interacts with the gracious actions of the Holy Spirit.

—AW Tozer

It will take more than talk & prayer to bring revival. There must be a return to the Lord in practice before our prayers will be heard in heaven.

—AW Tozer

We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.

We have lost the sense & the wonder of His awe-fullness, His perfection, His beauty.

Oh, I feel that we should preach it, sing it, write about it, talk about it & tell it until we have recaptured the concept of the Majesty of God!

—AW Tozer

Enlightened by the Spirit, believers gain a new knowledge of faith. Salvation that is not known and enjoyed is no salvation. God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

—Herman Bavinck

They are most to be feared who become very rich in book learning but remain unlearned as Christians.

—Herman Bavinck

God did not reveal himself, so that from his revelation we might construct a philosophical concept of God, but so that we might receive, acknowledge, and confess him, the one true, living God, as our God.

—Herman Bavinck

There is another kind of divine working that may occur without our being aware of it, or at least without our recognizing it for what it is. This is that wondrous operation of God known in theology as prevenient grace.

—AW Tozer

Time cannot exist in and by itself. God by his eternal power sustains time, both in its entirety and in each separate moment of it.

—Herman Bavinck

In dogmatics, God loves us; in ethics, we love him.

—Herman Bavinck

Christianity is no less than the real, supreme work of the Triune God, in which the Father reconciles his created but fallen world through the death of his Son and re-creates it through his Spirit into the kingdom of God.

—Herman Bavinck

The Holy Spirit is the true conservator of orthodoxy & will invariably say the same thing to meek & trusting souls.

—AW Tozer

It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.

—AW Tozer

The disciples of Jesus are not, according to His historical name, Jesuites, but, according to the name of His office, Christians.

—Herman Bavinck

God, and God alone, is man’s highest good.

—Herman Bavinck

Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs.

—AW Tozer

All the works of God in nature and grace, in creation and re-creation, and in the world and history enable us to know something of the incomprehensible and lovely nature of God.

—Herman Bavinck

I think there can be no doubt that the need above all other needs in the Church of God at this moment is the power of the Holy Spirit. More education, better organization, finer equipment, more advanced methods—all are unavailing.

—AW Tozer

A theologian who is acquainted with all the latest issues of his science but who stands speechless at a sickbed and knows no answer to the questions of the lost sinner’s heart isn’t worthy of his title and office.

—Herman Bavinck

God will take nine steps toward us, but He will not take the tenth. He will incline us to repent, but He cannot do our repenting for us.

—AW Tozer

A theologian is one who in a real sense is a scholar taught by God, who speaks of God, about God, and for the sake of the glory of God’s name.

—Herman Bavinck

We shall need to recapture the spirit of worship. We shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness of God & the beauty of Jesus

—AW Tozer

If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.

—A. W. Tozer

The Kingdom of God will include everything in heaven and on earth. By the blood of the cross, Christ has reconciled all things to himself and thus to each other (Col. 1:20). Under him as the Head, everything will be gathered into one and recapitulated in him (Eph. 1:10).

—Herman Bavinck

The Christian moral life has faith at its root, the law as its rule, and the honor of God as its goal.

—Herman Bavinck