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
The sons of God have a right and title to all, in that they are made heirs with Christ.
—John Owen
If the world has nothing to say against you, it is a pretty sure sign that God has not much to say for you, for if you do seek to live unto Christ Jesus, you must go against the current of the world.
—D. L. Moody
We should admire the love of Christ to men, that he has thus given himself to be the remedy for all their evil, and fountain of all good.
—Jonathan Edwards
It is a blessed thing to live upon God. Did ever any trust in him and was forsaken?
—George Whitefield
There are some surprises hidden in the story of the beginning.
“I cannot comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called.”
— Charles Spurgeon
O tell it out that He is near, all you who love Him, tell it out to the sad world that thinks Him far away, though He be not far from every one of us.
—Amy Carmichael
“We practise believer s baptism, and baptize all who confess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether they are children or adults. Our enquiry as to fitness does not refer to age, but to faith.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We practise believer s baptism, and baptize all who confess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whether they are children or adults. Our enquiry as to fitness does not refer to age, but to faith.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“I have nothing to fear;
I cannot be condemned.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Addict yourselves to the holy work of caring for the feeble and despondent.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“As soon as a person is converted and added to the church he should become the object of the care and kindness of his fellow members.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“All of my sins have been forever obliterated by the blood of Christ.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“I say therefore, this morning, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to all of you who love him, Look well to the weak ones of the church.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“We praise the electing, unchangeable, eternal, conquering love of the Lord.”
— Charles Spurgeon
You are enlisted under the banner of Christ – ‘Fear not, though the world, and the flesh, and the devil are set in array against you’.
—William Wilberforce
He who believes, though he sows in tears, yet he shall reap in joy.
—Jonathan Edwards
We must be helps to each other on this side of eternity.
—George Whitefield
The knowledge of ourselves, in reference to our supernatural end, is no small portion of our wisdom.
—John Owen
God has condescended to touch our hearts…by the wonderful variety and beauty of his Book.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Because God is infinitely happy, he delights in the happiness of his creatures.”
— Charles Spurgeon
It is utterly impossible to make a man better without Christ, and that is what men are trying to do. They are trying to patch up this old Adam’s nature. There must be a new creation.
—D. L. Moody
“We must never so evangelize the outside mass as to forget to fold and feed those within.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Carry Christ’s burden, and your shoulders shall have rest.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If you are ever tempted to think any promise of the Word too large and that you must discount it, remember that Christ is risen and that therein you have a proof and illustration of the “exceeding greatness of the power to us-ward who believe.”
—R. A. Torrey
“Our one instrument as fishers for Christ is the gospel of the grace of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Christ is perfectly and completely applied to the soul in the first act for righteousness.
—John Flavel
“We ought to work as if all depended upon us,
and then we are to trust God knowing that all depends on him.”
— Charles Spurgeon