Christian Writers and Preachers

God’s ancient people, especially the most spiritual among them, were so conscious of the holiness and the greatness of God that they trembled to even use His name.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Augustine

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

Augustine

…the Incarnation shows us the method or the manner of God’s blessing.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

Augustine

We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not make any difference what a man believes in if he is only sincere. No greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than that. It is ruining more souls at present than anything else.

—D. L. Moody

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer, we have got to be closeted with God.

—D. L. Moody

The spirit of “Who shall be the greatest?” is still one of the greatest hindrances to the church of God today – the endeavor to win for ourselves honor and esteem.

—D. L. Moody

Let us bear in mind that nothing is too hard for God, and He delights in doing hard things.

—D. L. Moody

The God who does the small thing is just giving you an example of the big thing He can do.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The world itself is proving the Bible’s fundamental postulate that men and women, in and of themselves, cannot arrive at the truth concerning their greatest needs.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The voice of sin may be loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

—D. L. Moody

Let us pray as we are walking down the street, let us pray in our families, let us pray in our business, and let us pray all the time.

—D. L. Moody

That is a true test of discipleship, if a man can forgive those that have trespassed against him, those that have injured him.

—D. L. Moody

When a minister or a messenger of Christ begins to change the message because he thinks it is not exactly what it ought to be, and thinks he is wiser than God, God just dismisses that man.

—D. L. Moody

Get up into your watch-tower and just keep looking up to God. Look at nothing else, least of all your problem.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Prophecy is not private interpretations of events but God revealing truth to man.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

So wait upon God. He will certainly send the answer.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

My friends, I tell you it makes all the difference in the world whether a man believes a truth or a lie.

—D. L. Moody

Men may think God is winking at sin now-a-days, and isn’t going to punish sin, because He does not execute His judgments speedily, but “be not deceived, God is not mocked.”

—D. L. Moody

The essential principle is that history can be understood only in terms of God’s kingdom-that is, the rule of God in the world as a whole and including the Church.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There is no forgiveness apart from Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Look up to God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Prayer is more than petition, and includes praise, thanksgiving, recollection and adoration.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There are more people ruined by flattery than by telling them their faults. The Holy Ghost never flatters, but convicts us of sin, and that is the reason many don’t like Him.

—D. L. Moody

Sin not only defiles God’s work; it is also insulting to God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.

Alistair Begg

The man who is living right with God is always praising Him. The blessings He showers upon us are more numerous than the hairs of our heads.

—D. L. Moody

Some men say, “I am not worthy to come.” I never knew a man yet that was worthy. He does not profess to save worthy men; he saves sinners.

—D. L. Moody

If a man gets his eye off God, and relies on his own strength, you may look for his fall.

—D. L. Moody