Christian Writers and Preachers

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

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

“Self-indulgence has slain its thousands. Let us tremble lest we perish by its hands.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Beware of the person of one book

—Thomas Aquinas

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. – C.S. Lewis

“I am not seeking to be great, but to be really useful.”

— Charles Spurgeon

I pray GOD to open your eyes with a sense of his love.

—George Whitefield

Thus Dr. Scofield’s view of the Mosaic Law is rooted in a wrong view of sin.

—J. Gresham Machen

The true reason why any despise *the new birth* is, because they hate *a new life*.

—John Owen

There may be admiration where there is no praise. The devils doubtless wonder at many things which God does.

—Jonathan Edwards

To love at all is to be vulnerable. -C.S. Lewis

“When a man consciously realizes the love of God in his soul, he cannot want more than that.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Be consumed with love for Christ and let the flame burn continuously.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“When a man is forgiven by God, and knows that he is saved, the joy of the Lord enters his soul, and he says, You may take all other joys, and do what you like with them. I have my God, my Saviour, and I want no more.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“If you rejoice with Christ’s joy to-day, you will have the same cause for rejoicing to-morrow, and for ever, and for evermore, for he says that his joy shall remain in you.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Who could be lonely with Jesus? He satisfieth!

—Amy Carmichael

“You have now no liberty to serve another, you are the sworn soldiers of the Crucified.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.

—Thomas Aquinas

“God’s love never changes towards his people; the atonement never loses its efficacy[…]”

– Charles Spurgeon

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar. – C.S. Lewis