Christian Writers and Preachers

I don’t know how others find it, but I am sure I find sin in my very bosom, in my very bowels; it is present with me. O wretched man that I am! A gracious soul can mourn to see in others, but to find it in himself pierces him to the very heart.

—John Flavel

There is certainly nothing that will bring greater comfort and consolation to the believer than to understand the nature of prophecy.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.

—John Flavel

My sin may be as high as the highest mountain, but the sacrifice that covers it is as high as the highest heaven; my guilt may be as deep as the ocean, but the atonement that swallows it up is as deep as eternity.

—R. A. Torrey

Any one who is not a fisher of men is not following Christ.

—R. A. Torrey

I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.

“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”

—R. A. Torrey

All supposed leadings of God should be tested by the Word of God. The Bible is God’s revealed will. Any leading that contradicts the plain teaching of the Bible is certainly not the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself.

—R. A. Torrey

Everything that is evil is under the judgment of God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

People tell us the Bible is full of things that are impossible to believe. I know of nothing else so impossible to believe as that a holy God should love such individuals as you and me, as the Bible says He does. But as impossible as it is to believe, it is true.

—R. A. Torrey

The upright soul, though he may be drawn to sin, yet he cannot reflect upon his sin without shame and sorrow, which plainly shows it to be an involuntary surprise.

—John Flavel

Even though no one else seems to be following Jesus, be sure you follow Him.

—R. A. Torrey

You can never convict a man of sin, because that is the work of the Holy Spirit. You can reason and reason and you will fail. It is ours to preach the Word and look to the Holy Spirit to produce conviction.

—R. A. Torrey

There is no perfect church. If you wait until you find a perfect church before you unite with any, you will unite with none, and thus you will belong to a church in which you are the only member, and that is the most imperfect church of all.

—R. A. Torrey

The one who neglects his Bible is bound to make a failure of the Christian life.

—R. A. Torrey

Sin was the sword that pierced Christ, and so the death of Christ becomes the death of sin in His people.

—John Flavel

Experience of the bitterness of sin is a restraint to a gracious heart.

—John Flavel

It is a great comfort to know that these might prophets of God We’re but men like ourselves and subject to the same frailties as ourselves.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Whatever our sin or trouble is, it should rather drive us to God than from God. Suppose it is true that you have sinned, that you are thus long and sadly deserted, yet it is a false inference that therefore you should be discouraged, as if there were no help for you in your God.

—John Flavel

A graceless heart may be troubled for the rod that sin draws after it, but not for sin itself.

—John Flavel

The testimony of Scripture is the testimony of God. What the Scriptures say is absolutely sure. What the Scriptures say God says.

—R. A. Torrey

Your soul shall shortly stand before the face of God and have the immediate emanations and beamings forth of His glory upon it.

—John Flavel

One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.

—R. A. Torrey

Is the world in trouble or not?

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The devil thought he was defeating Christ, but Christ was reconciling us to God, defeating the devil and delivering us out of his clutches.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

It is not enough that we have our times of secret prayer to God alone with Him, we also need to have fellowship with others in prayer.

—R. A. Torrey

In theology, Calvin stands alone, shining like a bright fixed star, while other leaders and teachers can only circle round him ~ Spurgeon

If there is any man or woman who thinks they have a complete mastery over themselves, if there is any man who thinks he has power to break away in his own strength from the sin that is within, he is a sadly deceived man.

—R. A. Torrey

Do not ask God to show you His will and then open your Bible at random and put your finger upon some text and take it out its connection without any relation to its real meaning and decide the will of God in that way. This is an irreverent and improper use of Scripture.

—R. A. Torrey

If we are not more than conquerors we are failing as Christians.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Keeping the heart is the most important business of a Christian’s life. Without this we are but formalists in religion: all our professions, gifts and duties signify nothing.

—John Flavel