Christian Writers and Preachers

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

Paul fights against dead works while James wages a campaign against a dead faith.

—Herman Bavinck

Think with me about beauty & about this matchless One who is the Lord of all beauty, our Savior

—AW Tozer

Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself, in its preparation, fulfillment, and consummation.

—Herman Bavinck

The LORD is dependent on nothing, but everything depends on him.

—Herman Bavinck

Christ is not the founder of Christianity, nor the first confessor of it, nor the first Christian. But he is Christianity itself… its preparation, fulfillment, and consummation.

—Herman Bavinck

I have asked myself many times why professing Christian believers can relegate the great missionary imperative of our Lord Jesus Christ to the sidelines of our Christian cause.

—AW Tozer

I remind you that it is characteristic of the natural man to keep himself so busy with unimportant trifles that he is able to avoid the settling of the most important matters relating to life & existence.

—AW Tozer

Gratitude. It is impossible to be too thankful to God, but it might be good to try it.

—AW Tozer

The Sabbath is the best of days; no other day is like it. And the church is the meeting of God with His people; no other gathering can take its place or compensate for its loss.

—Herman Bavinck

Prevenient grace may be simple conviction or a strange longing which nothing can satisfy or powerful aspiration after eternal values or feeling of disgust for sin & desire to be delivered from its repulsive coils. These strange workings within are the stirrings of the Holy Spirit

—A. W. Tozer

God has given us the Holy Spirit to illuminate our minds. He is eyes & understanding to us. We dare not try to get on without Him.

—AW Tozer

Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.

—AW Tozer