Christian Writers and Preachers

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

… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There are some of us who set much store by our morality, our culture, and our refinement; but if we knew how little we weighed in the balances of the eternal and all holy God, we would fall on our knees and cry, “God be merciful to me, a sinner!”

—R. A. Torrey

If we are not more concerned for the purity of the Church than with the fact that we are faced by the possibility of another war, that is a serious reflection upon our Christianity.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Our studied speeches do not reveal what we are, but what we would like to be; but our idle words, that we drop accidentally, they are the best revelation of what is there in our hearts.

—R. A. Torrey

Looking to God means not dealing with a problem yourself, not consulting other people, but depending entirely upon God, and ‘waiting’ only upon Him.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The Son Of God became man in order that He might be our perfect High Priest and be able to lead us to God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Why is the world at it is, and why are we ever guilty of sin? It is because we do not realize the holy character of God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God’s will is certain.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

It is not needful to be on your knees all the time, but the heart should be on its knees all the time.

—R. A. Torrey

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not an idea; but a literal, historic fact.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.

—R. A. Torrey

What matters is whether I accepting God’s rule or not.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There on the cross our Lord was reconciling us unto God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

…we cannot aspire to God and enter salvation, but God, in his infinite grace and mercy, gives it and reveals it.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

God’s way is moral.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Do not engage in any amusement that you cannot make a matter of prayer, that you cannot ask God’s blessing upon. Pray before your play just as much as you would pray before your work.

—R. A. Torrey

Oftentimes, that which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

—R. A. Torrey

The gossip, the slanderer, is viler than the vilest thief that walks your streets. The thief only steals money; the slanderer steals what money cannot buy – reputation.

—R. A. Torrey