Christian Writers and Preachers

“Our urgent work— I mean yours and mine, my brethren— is to go out into the world and proclaim the blessed gospel of salvation to all who care to hear us.”

– Charles Spurgeon

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there. – C.S. Lewis

Are we forever condemned to live the sordid life of utilitarianism?

—J. Gresham Machen

Let your petitions be presented as if you believed in God and had no doubt as to the efficacy of prayer.

— Charles Spurgeon

Cast yourselves on his undeserved mercy; he is full of love, and will not spurn you: surrender yourselves into his hands, and solemnly resolve, through his grace, to dedicate henceforth all your faculties and powers to his service.

—William Wilberforce

Let our closets and places of retirement be witnesses of our sincere and hearty praises.

—Jonathan Edwards

The aim of the Lord Jesus in establishing gospel administrations, and administrators, is ‘for the perfecting of the saints, the work of the ministry,’ etc. All is for them, all is for the family.

—John Owen

God suffers his dear children to fall into little miscarriages, that the eye may not say to the hand, ‘I have not need of thee;’ or again, the head to the foot, ‘I have no need of thee.’

—George Whitefield

How can they hope for salvation for their souls if they do not believe that ‘the Lord is risen indeed’?

— Charles Spurgeon

Without the consciousness of sin, the whole of the gospel will seem to be an idle tale.

—J. Gresham Machen

Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”

—D. L. Moody

“Set your affection upon Him who has set His affection upon you.”

– Charles Spurgeon

There is no more lively image of heaven than an assembly of Christians praising God.

—Jonathan Edwards

How could Jesus be our ransom from the grave if he had himself remained under the dominion of death?

— Charles Spurgeon

“Let the morning break with thoughts of Christ, and let your last thought at night be sweetened with his presence.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“O to love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: that is what the law required, it is what the gospel enables us to render.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Jesus rose again.

This fact is proved better than any other event in history.

— Charles Spurgeon

The resurrection is the day of Christ’s crowning. He was Son and Messiah already before His incarnation. He was that also in His humiliation. But then His inner being was hidden under the form of a servant.

—Herman Bavinck

Death may therefore have come into the world by a man; but the resurrection from the dead came also by a man (1 Cor. 15:21). Christ is Himself the resurrection and the life ( John 11:25).

—Herman Bavinck

Every ceremony is fulfilled in Christ. Sunday is the day of resurrection.

Under the Old Testament the pattern was first work, then rest– that is, the worship of God.

—Herman Bavinck

Without the resurrection, the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr, with the resurrection, it is the atoning death of the Son of God.

—R. A. Torrey

‘God is love’. This is the sacred principle which warms and enlightens the heavenly world, that blessed seat of God’s visible presence.

—William Wilberforce

All spiritual liberty is from the Spirit of adoption; whatever else is pretended, is licentiousness.

—John Owen

How becoming a thing is it that we should love and bless God, seeing he does so much for us and requires nothing also as a return but the sacrifices of thanksgiving.

—Jonathan Edwards

I shall act when put to the trial. This, however, is my comfort, ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and for ever.’

—George Whitefield

Christian laypeople must be encouraged to be leaders in their fields, rather than eager-to-please followers…

—J. Gresham Machen

How often, as we ponder some new tender mercy, so undeserved, so dewy with the freshness of love that we long for words of glory to sing that love, we can only say, Lord, Thou knowest me. I am all open unto Thee—and yet Thou hast done this.

—Amy Carmichael

His dead body was quickened.

The silent heart began again to beat.

Through the stagnant canals of the veins the life-flood began to circulate.

— Charles Spurgeon

“[Christ] is sitting at the right hand of God in the place of honour and favour. This is a proof that we are beloved and favoured of God, for our representative has the choicest place, at God’s right hand.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“Our sins are gone. He cast them into his own tomb, and they are buried there, never to have a resurrection.”

— Charles Spurgeon