An unsanctified person may relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the gospel, by a misapplication of them to himself. But this is like the joy of a beggar, dreaming he is a king; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still.
—John Flavel
Not law but gospel, not demand but promise is the center of revelation, even in the days of the old covenant, to which man’s part is to respond in faith and in the walk of faith (Gen. 17:1), just as Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 understood the revelation of God to Abraham.
—Herman Bavinck
“Though we are accustomed to hear the gospel often, it never loses its charm.”
“[…] I think a teacher is very unwise who does not come to hear the gospel preached and get a meal for his own soul. First be fed, and then feed.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“I cannot comprehend a gospel which lets saints fall away after they are called.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our one instrument as fishers for Christ is the gospel of the grace of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“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
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
Without the consciousness of sin, the whole of the gospel will seem to be an idle tale.
—J. Gresham Machen
“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
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
An unsanctified person may relish and taste some sweetness in the delicious promises and discoveries of the gospel, by a misapplication of them to himself. But this is like the joy of a beggar, dreaming he is a king; but he awakes and finds himself a beggar still.
—John Flavel
The gospel is gospel, good news for all creatures, not a proclamation of destruction and death, but of resurrection and life.
—Herman Bavinck
Christ our Captain is calling for volunteers; here are the terms: Whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospel’s the same shall find it.
—Amy Carmichael
“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Above all, we need often to go to Christ, to get from his hand a fresh stock of that gospel provision which we are afterwards to dispense to the people in his name.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The message of the gospel is applied by Christ directly and distinctly to our own soul.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Many persons are misled by the favourable opinions entertained of them by others; many, it is to be feared, mistake a hot zeal for orthodoxy, for a cordial acceptance of the great truths of the gospel.
—William Wilberforce
What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me.
—J. Gresham Machen
Not law but gospel, not demand but promise is the center of revelation, even in the days of the old covenant, to which man’s part is to respond in faith and in the walk of faith (Gen. 17:1), just as Paul in Romans 4 and Galatians 3 understood the revelation of God to Abraham.
—Herman Bavinck
The gospel is simply a joyful message; not an obligation but a promise; not a duty but a gift.
—Herman Bavinck
A true minister of the gospel will feed us on the Word of God, but that is not enough. He feeds us but one or two days of the week, and we need to be fed every day.
—R. A. Torrey
The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, Jesus loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God’s grace.
—D. L. Moody
If you believe what you like in the Gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
What people need is the gospel, not directions for saving themselves but knowledge of how God has saved them.
—J. Gresham Machen
The knowledge of him as a God in Christ pardoning sin and saving sinners is attainable by the gospel only.
—John Owen
If our lot be so cast that we can exercise our ministry free from stripes, fines, imprisonment, and death, it is more than the Gospel has promised us.
—John Newton
Gospel grace and pardoning mercy is alone purchased by him, and revealed in him.
—John Owen
Simplicity is the very spirit of the gospel; therefore, the more we learn CHRIST, the more regardless we shall be of worldly vanities.
—George Whitefield
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs