Christian Writers and Preachers

… 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

We must believe that God is always true to His word, and that His promises never fail.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The church is made up men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realize that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.

—R. A. Torrey

Go to your pastor and ask him if there is some work he would like to have you do for him in the church. Be a person that your pastor can depend upon.

—R. A. Torrey

I would rather believe and preach unpleasant truth than to believe and preach pleasant error.

—R. A. Torrey

…this is the devil’s great blunder, that by bringing the Son of God to the cross he was defeating himself, and bringing about his own ultimate doom.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Sin is that which has defiled God’s work, God’s image, in man and woman.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christ’s words must abide or continue in us. We must study His words, fairly devour His words, let them sink deep into our thought and into our heart, keep them in our memory, obey them constantly in our life, let them shape and mold our daily life and our every act.

—R. A. Torrey

Walk circumspectly, because you don’t know who will be influenced by your words and actions.

—D. L. Moody

Put your trust in nothing of man, but in God alone!

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Do you say, “Have you never sinned?” Alas, I have. Sinned so deeply that none of you will ever know, thank God. But thank God still more, when Jesus Christ was nailed to yonder Cross of Calvary, all my sins were settled.

—R. A. Torrey

It would be well for us to be more careful how we sing. I don’t know why it is not as bad to sing a lie as to speak one.

—D. L. Moody