Christian Writers and Preachers

“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

“Now I know that my Lord Jesus loves me, and that he will never do anything else but love me.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“He wore my crown, the crown of thorns;

I wear his crown, the crown of glory.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“If your proud flesh should rebel, pray it down; for, rest assured that, if you were so selfish as only to wish to do that which would promote your own happiness, it would be the path of wisdom to be obedient to your Lord and Master.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it. – C.S. Lewis

“[…]the precepts of the Lord Jesus are tender and gracious, and bring us joy and life.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Whenever a doubt is proposed to me I fall back upon this fact: Jesus did rise from the dead. That is sure.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Preach Christ, and Christ, and Christ, and Christ, and nothing else but Christ.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“The promise of harvest gives joy to the earth. Rob not your Lord of the sheaves which he deserves to gather from your heart and life; but believe his Word, rest upon it, and rejoice in it, realizing that his words of promise are meant to bring you great joy.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Freely we have received, freely let us give; what CHRIST tells us by his Spirit in our closets, that let us proclaim on the house top.

—George Whitefield

We by our sin have exposed ourselves to wrath, to a vindictive justice; but God has done very great things that we might be saved from that wrath

—Jonathan Edwards

The knowledge of him as a God in Christ pardoning sin and saving sinners is attainable by the gospel only.

—John Owen

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. – C.S. Lewis