Christian Writers and Preachers

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

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

Augustine

The saints of the Old Testament are saved in Christ as much as you and I are, and all who will ever live must be saved in Christ or not at all.

—Martyn Lloyd Jones

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

Augustine

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Augustine

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Augustine

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Augustine

It’s never too late for repentance. With God’s help we can chart a new course and set our sails in the direction of obedience to God.

Alistair Begg

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument.

Augustine

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Augustine

“The Bible is not only good but better than the best of treasure.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“We cannot commune with God, who is a consuming fire, if there is no fire in our prayers.”

— Charles Spurgeon

You cannot stand still; you must either rise or fall; rise higher or fail lower. Therefore the voice of God to the children of Israel, to the children of God, is, Go forward!

—John Wesley