Christian Writers and Preachers

“The Father himself loveth you, declares Christ; so, surely, you share Christ’s joy, and that fact should make your own joy full.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. – C.S. Lewis

“We must learn to never ascribe any earthly comfort to any earthly source.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The very center and core of the whole Bible is the doctrine of the grace of God…

—J. Gresham Machen

[Reality] is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. – C.S. Lewis

“Train up a child in the way he should go—but be sure you go that way yourself.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Persons who hold the same view of sin and retribution that Jesus held, to such persons alone, the beauty of Jesus is without flaw.

—J. Gresham Machen

Fear not man. The LORD OF HOSTS shall be with you; the strength of that GOD who hath called you shall be your refuge.

—George Whitefield

You must follow your guide, which is the Word of God, which directs you still to pray and to seek and follow on.

—Jonathan Edwards

The Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays. – C.S. Lewis

He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, – because he values believers.

—John Owen

All get what they want; they do not always like it. – C.S. Lewis

“It ought to fill us with delight to know that we are loved of the Lord, with an everlasting and infinite love, even as Jesus Christ is loved.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“We preach not man’s merit, but Christ crucified.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“God, If I cannot see the brightness of your face, the shadow of your wings will be enough for me.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“But when our Lord Jesus Christ sees us doing much for God, he is pleased with us, as the gardener is when, having planted a tree, and digged about it, and manured it, and pruned it, he sees it at last covered with golden fruit.”

– Charles Spurgeon

We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. – C.S. Lewis

“What greater joy can a man have than to feel that he is pleasing Christ?”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Faith in God is a necessity of reason.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“If you continue, day by day, to walk with God carefully and prayerfully, and to abide in Christ continually, he will look upon you with eyes of satisfaction and delight[…]”

– Charles Spurgeon

What people need is the gospel, not directions for saving themselves but knowledge of how God has saved them.

—J. Gresham Machen

“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.

He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”

— Charles Spurgeon

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. – C.S. Lewis

Show me the sinner that can spread his iniquities to the dimensions (if I may so say) of this grace. Here is mercy enough for the greatest, the oldest, the stubbornest transgressor, – ‘Why will ye die, O house of Israel?’

—John Owen

Show me the sinner that can spread his iniquities to the dimensions (if I may so say) of this grace. Here is mercy enough for the greatest, the oldest, the stubbornest transgressor, – ‘Why will ye die, O house of Israel?’

—John Owen

He who sends, will protect us. All the devils in hell shall not hurt us, till we have finished our testimony.

—George Whitefield

If you have prayed earnestly or you think a great while and have gone through great discouragement in it, yet pray still. Let the discouragement be what it will.

—Jonathan Edwards

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. – C.S. Lewis

“The Lord is a real God, infinitely more real than things, more real even than ourselves.”

— Charles Spurgeon

The glory of the atonement is not that there’s a change in us, rather it’s that there’s a change in the way God deals with us.

—J. Gresham Machen