Christian Writers and Preachers

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

“Behold, the church is Christ’s Eden, watered by the river of life, and so fertilized that all manner of fruits are brought forth unto God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

The cardinal principle of unbelief is that miracles have never happened.

—J. Gresham Machen

O may I grow in fear and love in desire to change worlds, in devotedness to Christ and his service.

—William Wilberforce

“To this very day, the ungodly are afraid of Christ, and, often, their raging against him resembles the noise made by the boy who, when hurrying through the graveyard, whistles to keep his courage up.”

– Charles Spurgeon

It is not thinkable that men should have faith & not pray.

—AW Tozer

“Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Scripture causes us to become aware of God where we would otherwise not see him; through its light, we behold God’s attributes, spread out in all of the works of his hands.

—Herman Bavinck

It requires a serious mind & a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual. Most Christians never do.

—AW Tozer

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

—Thomas Aquinas

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. – C.S. Lewis

“You cannot fail to be wise if you commune with Incarnate Wisdom.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Blessed be the Lord, he is never unmindful of me, but always sends me needed supplies… when I am like one dead, he raises me to life.

—David Brainerd

The church is a divine institution, built by Jesus Christ Himself. It is the one institution that abides. Other institutions come and go; they do their work for the day and disappear, but the church will continue to the end.

—R. A. Torrey

A sincere heart dares not sin because of the eye and fear of God that is on him; so you find it in Job 31:1 & 4. He dared not allow his thoughts to sin because he lived under the awe of God’s eye.

—John Flavel

There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.

—D. L. Moody

The object of a truly religious faith is none other than God.

—J. Gresham Machen

The Scripture knows of no earnings that men can make of themselves but death

—John Owen

Pure and undefiled religion consists in a lively faith in JESUS CHRIST, as the only mediator between GOD and man.

—George Whitefield