Christian Writers and Preachers

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

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