Christian Writers and Preachers

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

Thanks be to God, we do not worship a dead Savior.

—D. L. Moody

“Let us rise and rest with [Christ]. He is sitting on a throne. Observe his majesty, delight in his power, and trust in his dominion.”

– Charles Spurgeon

When He shouted on the cross, “It is finished!” it was the shout of a conqueror. He had overcome every enemy. He had met sin and death. He had met every foe that you and I have got to meet, and had come off victor.

—D. L. Moody

The world is lying in misery, we ourselves are sinners, men are perishing in sin every day. The gospel is the sole means of escape.

—J. Gresham Machen

“Jesus is with us in our solitude,

he is with us in our public assemblies;

but there is one place where he is not; and that is, in the empty tomb.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“If ye then be risen with Christ, live according to your risen nature, for your life is hid with Christ in God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“There he lies silently in the tomb.

He, who is to bruise the old serpent’s’ head, is himself bruised.”

— Charles Spurgeon

Enjoy whatsoever brings glory to God, and promotes peace and goodwill among men.

—John Wesley

While your sins are as deep as the ocean, the atonement that swallows them up is as deep as eternity, and on the ground of Christ’s atoning death there is pardon to-night for the vilest sinner in Bingley Hall, for the vilest sinner on the face of this earth.

—R. A. Torrey

Let me beware, lest I make Christ the minister of sin, by comforting myself too easily when any temptation has prevailed over me, with the reflection, that I have a remedy at hand; it is only to humble myself and implore pardon,and, the promises being sure, to obtain forgiveness.

—William Wilberforce

Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).

—Herman Bavinck

He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.

—John Owen

Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.

—George Whitefield

God’s praise is comely and beautiful because the very business of it is to manifest and show forth the excellency, comeliness, and beauty of God.

—Jonathan Edwards

O blessed be God that I may pray!

—David Brainerd

According to Christian belief, man exists for the sake of God; according to the liberal Church, in practice if not in theory, God exists for the sake of man.

—J. Gresham Machen

Our Lord has hallowed the ordinary in such a way that no one can ever make it unspiritual.

—Amy Carmichael

“The memorial of Christ’s death is a festival, not a funeral.”

— Charles Spurgeon