Christian Writers and Preachers

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

It is only a wink, and you shall see God. Your happiness shall not be deferred till the resurrection, but as soon as the body is dead the gracious soul is swallowed up in life (Rom 8:10–11).

—John Flavel

Your body must be refined and cast into a new mold, else that new wine of heavenly glory would break it…. Who would not be willing to die for a full sight and enjoyment of God?

—John Flavel

The reason why many fail in the battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came.

—R. A. Torrey

The upright soul hates sin in himself more than he hates it in any other, as a man hates a serpent in the hedge, but much more in his own bosom: But I see another law in my members…I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me (Rom. 7:23, 21).

—John Flavel

If you told God on your knees that you had reached an impasse, and that you could not solve your problem, and that you were handing it over to Him, then leave it with Him.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Stop in the midst of the bustle and hurry and temptation of the day for thanksgiving and prayer. A few minutes spent alone with God at midday will go far to keep you calm in the midst of the worries and anxieties of modern life.

—R. A. Torrey

It is important to know the mind of man. It is absolutely essential to know the mind of God. The place to discover the mind of God is the Bible. This is the Book in which God reveals His mind

—R. A. Torrey

So deep is the hatred that upright ones bear to sin that nothing pleases them more than the thoughts of a full deliverance from it.

—John Flavel

A Christian may be drawn to sin, yet he would be glad with all his heart to be rid of sin. It would be more to him than thousands of gold and silver, that he might grieve and offend God no more; He that is under the dominion of sin is loath to leave his lusts….

—John Flavel

There is more wisdom in the Bible than there is in all the other literature of the ages. The one who studies the Bible will know more of real wisdom than the man who reads every other book and neglects his Bible.

—R. A. Torrey

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones