Quotes from C. S. Lewis, Charles Spurgeon, D. L. Moody, A. W. Tozer, Herman Bavinck, Amy Carmichael, and others.
Quotes from Christian Writers and Preachers
Our strength will fail us. The strength of our friends will fail us. If we trust in our money it will take wings and fly away. If we trust in the love of our friends, they will leave us. A mother may forget her child, but God will never forget us.
—D. L. Moody
[Faith] involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge.
—J. Gresham Machen
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Augustine
I don’t think any man or woman knows what true liberty is until they have been set free by the Lord Jesus Christ.
—D. L. Moody
Trust in him at all times, in the dark as well as in the light.
—D. L. Moody
Let’s pray that we may get self out of the way, that Christ may be all in all.
—D. L. Moody
God never led anyone astray yet, or into error yet; He leads out of darkness into light; He leads from bondage into liberty; He leads from error into truth.
—D. L. Moody
You may deceive your neighbor, you may deceive yourselves, but you cannot deceive God.
—D. L. Moody
We are not so far from Him but that He can see our tears, and hear the faintest whisper when we lift our hearts to Him in prayer.
—D. L. Moody
Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.
Augustine
We need to be alone with Him daily; we should give one hour out of the twenty-four, and specially set it apart to get acquainted with God.
—D. L. Moody
When we get near heaven, earth’s treasures and earth’s cares look very small and trifling.
—D. L. Moody
If you wish to possess love for God’s Word, study it diligently and so become like an artesian well – overflowing with the water of life to refresh thirsty souls.
—D. L. Moody
There is not a sigh goes up to Him but that He hears it. He hears His children when they cry.
—D. L. Moody
“God will spare the sinner because he did not spare his Son.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The truth can be perceived only through thinking, as is proven by Augustine.
—Thomas Aquinas
Faith in him will enable you to overcome the world, and cause you even to triumph over the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
—George Whitefield
Whatever appears externally, it is not praise if it be not an expression of what is in the mind.
—Jonathan Edwards
Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.
Augustine
The evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Christ hath a fellow feeling with his saints in all their troubles, as a man hath with his own flesh.
—John Owen
“The world never helps the church; it is all in arms against it; there is nothing in the world’s air or soil that can fertilise the church even to the least degree.”
– Charles Spurgeon
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Augustine
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Augustine
If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
—Thomas Aquinas
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ. – C.S. Lewis
“The best church that ever Christ had on earth would within a few years apostatise from the truth if deserted by the Spirit of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
Augustine
Better to go to Heaven alone
than to Hell with the herd.
Charles Spurgeon