Christian Writers and Preachers

“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

“Seek all knowledge, but, above all, meditate day and night on the law of the Lord.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.

—J. Gresham Machen

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. – C.S. Lewis

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Only my faith makes life worthwhile to live.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Praise is the act of intelligent creatures and not the act of mere machines or things without life.

—Jonathan Edwards

There is no such division in the external operations of God that any one of them should be the act of one person, without the concurrence of the others

—John Owen

Love, love to JESUS, casts out fear.

—George Whitefield

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours. – C.S. Lewis

“He is Alpha, and he is Omega; he is the Author and he is also the Finisher of our faith.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.

—Thomas Aquinas

“We shall meet in heaven one day;

until then may the God of all grace be our helper.”

— Charles Spurgeon