Christian Writers and Preachers

If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.

—Jonathan Edwards

There are quiet rest and sweet refreshment in Christ for God’s people that are weary.

—Jonathan Edwards

Fear not the face of man, for the LORD, if you go out in his strength, shall be with you, whithersoever you go.

—George Whitefield

This it is to ask the Father in Christ’s name, – God as a father, the fountain; and Christ as the procurer of them.

—John Owen

Let me exhort you, by the mercies of GOD in CHRIST JESUS, to continue unwearied in well doing.

—George Whitefield

He delivers us out of prison, and lifts us off from the dunghill, and he sets us among princes, and causes us to inherit the throne of glory.

—Jonathan Edwards

It is in Christ alone, and on the account of his oblation and intercession, that we have any boldness to approach unto him.

—John Owen

Jesus Christ hath ‘consecrated a new and living way’ (for the saints) ‘through the vail, that is to say, his flesh,’ Heb 10:20. He hath consecrated and set it apart for believers, and for them alone.

—John Owen

I love those that thunder out the word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it.

—George Whitefield

They who come to Christ, do not only come to a resting place after they have been wandering in a wilderness, but they come to a banqueting-house where they may rest, and where they may feast.

—Jonathan Edwards

A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.

—Jonathan Edwards

I know many of my acquaintance, who love to hear me talk and preach, and who receive me gladly into their houses; but alas! I fear they are self-righteous, and were never yet truly convinced of sin.

—George Whitefield

All endeavours, all attempts for communion with God, without the supplies of the Spirit of supplications, without his effectual working in the heart, is of no value, nor to any purpose.

—John Owen

I have often thought, dear Madam, that you did not see through the world enough.

—George Whitefield

Do you believe in the Son of GOD? All thing are possible to him that believeth. If the devil therefore continues his assaults, resist him, stedfast in the faith.

—George Whitefield

Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyment of God’s love.

—Jonathan Edwards

There is a wide difference between understanding *the doctrine of the Scripture* as in the letter, and a true knowing the mind of Christ.

—John Owen

I am now reading the book of martyrs. They make me blush to think how little I suffer for CHRIST’s sake.

—George Whitefield

All *spiritual* revelation is by Christ. He is ‘the true Light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,’ John 1:9.

—John Owen

It is his work as Mediator to give rest to the weary, it is the work that he was anointed for, and in which he delights.

—Jonathan Edwards

Now, Christ delights exceedingly in his saints: ‘As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee,’ Is 50:5.

—John Owen

If there is mercy with GOD, let him be feared, not disobeyed.

—George Whitefield

God does not choose men, because they are excellent; but he makes them excellent, and because he has chosen them.

—Jonathan Edwards

Oh that we may suffer only as christians, and then the spirit of CHRIST and of glory will rest upon us.

—George Whitefield

Christ is not only a remedy for your weariness and trouble, but he will give you an abundance of the contrary, joy and delight.

—Jonathan Edwards

If all wisdom be laid up in him, and by an interest in him only to be attained, – if all things beside him and without him that lay claim thereto are folly and vanity, – let them that would be wise learn where to repose their souls.

—John Owen

You need not wish for the wings of a dove that you may fly afar off, and be at rest, but Christ is night at hand, if you were but sensible of it.

—Jonathan Edwards

Let not our dear LORD’s lambs perish for lack of knowledge. ‘Give ye, give ye them to eat,’ methinks, is the endearing, constraining command of the great shepherd and bishop of souls.

—George Whitefield

Scarcely have any *wise* men been brought to destruction, but it hath evidently been through their own *folly*; neither hath the wisest counsel of most been one jot better than madness.

—John Owen

If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.

—Jonathan Edwards