Christian Writers and Preachers

“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

God is to be praised for his goodness.

—Jonathan Edwards

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. – C.S. Lewis

“We must put away all notion of self-importance.

God will not bless the man who thinks himself great.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Thus may the Master smile on you, my dearly-beloved, and make you to be such eminent saints that he can have great joy in you; for, then, his joy shall remain in you, and your joy shall be full.”

– Charles Spurgeon

To make peace either in oneself or among others, shows a man to be a follower of God.

—Thomas Aquinas

There would be no sense in saying you trusted Jesus if you would not take his advice. – C.S. Lewis

“Cling to Christ, beloved.

Go no further than he leads you.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“To touch the hem of [Christ’s] garment is enough for sinners; but it is not enough for saints. We want to sit at his feet with Mary, and to lay our heads upon his bosom as John did.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Lay everything at his dear feet who bled and died for you.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Come to your Lord, beloved.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror. – C.S. Lewis

The war is a horrid, unnatural kind of thing even in its least horrible aspects.

—J. Gresham Machen