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Sharing quotes from historical Christians about 'the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints'. Jude 1v3.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. Ryle
31
386
2K
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
Martin Luther
4
309
1K
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Richard Sibbes
16
330
1K
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
Martin Luther
7
226
1K
But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in him but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.
Augustine
5
225
1K
Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.
John Chrysostom
8
196
1K
Jesus will reign over you, either by your consent, or without it.
Charles Spurgeon
15
179
961
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
J. C. Ryle
16
190
940
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
John Bunyan
4
173
795
When I look at myself, I don't see how I can be saved.
But when I look at Christ, I don't see how I can be lost.
Martin Luther
5
163
751
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
J. C. Ryle
7
150
745
Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
John Newton
2
125
744
Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.
George Whitefield
5
184
739
Be careful not to measure your holiness by other people’s sins.
Martin Luther
1
180
738
It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.
Charles Spurgeon
9
127
726
When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.
Charles Spurgeon
6
163
735
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
Dwight L. Moody
13
176
722
He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
Jonathan Edwards
5
103
721
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
Martin Luther
4
167
700
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
Jonathan Edwards
4
140
687
Not one drop of rain falls without God’s sure command.
John Calvin
2
105
635
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
John Calvin
27
129
604
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
Martin Luther
3
165
602
To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances; to seek him, the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Augustine
6
142
610
If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him. For you are worse than he believes you to be.
Charles Spurgeon
10
130
594
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
John Wesley
7
149
574
Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.
John Chrysostom
1
109
579
God loves to forgive even more than you love to sin.
Charles Spurgeon
6
73
554
Jesus wept, but He never complained.
Charles Spurgeon
11
81
546
There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.
Charles Spurgeon
7
113
548
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
Martin Luther
4
108
536
Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
Dwight L. Moody
4
112
540
Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties.
C. S. Lewis
3
124
519
Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
J. C. Ryle
8
87
522
You must learn to call on the Lord. Don’t sit all alone, shaking your head and letting your thoughts torture you. Instead, fall on your knees, and raise your hands and eyes toward Heaven. Read a psalm. Say the Lord’s Prayer, and tearfully tell God what you need.
Martin Luther
2
120
511
We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.
Martin Luther
3
116
515
Whenever God means to make a man great — He always breaks him in pieces first.
Charles Spurgeon
6
128
502
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis
4
98
516
Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.
Charles Spurgeon
3
105
502
Our sins are many, but His mercies are more:
our sins are great, but His righteousness is greater:
we are weak, but He is power.
John Newton
0
121
512
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
6
93
499
Whenever God means to make a man great — He always breaks him in pieces first.
Charles Spurgeon
4
108
504
God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.
Martin Luther
3
103
487
The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.
Charles Spurgeon
5
84
494
When I look at myself, I don't see how I can be saved.
But when I look at Christ, I don't see how I can be lost.
Martin Luther
3
89
484
A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
Martin Luther
5
87
474
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
John Wesley
7
91
464
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction.
Charles Spurgeon
5
105
468
Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.
George Whitefield
5
102
464
My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is doing for me.
Charles Spurgeon
5
95
463
Remember that if you are a child of God, you will never be happy in sin.
Charles Spurgeon
3
85
457
The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end.
Charles Spurgeon
8
69
445
I have read many beautiful things in Plato and Cicero, but never this:
“Come unto me, all you who labor and are heavy laden.”
Augustine
5
77
451
He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.
Augustine
5
103
445
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
8
101
443
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
C. S. Lewis
3
103
430
It is better to go bruised to Heaven than sound to Hell.
Richard Sibbes
6
72
432
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
John Calvin
15
98
436
Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
Thomas Watson
2
72
444
If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
Charles Spurgeon
2
96
431
You stand before God as if you were Christ, because Christ stood before God as if He were you.
Charles Spurgeon
4
90
434
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
John Calvin
12
122
433
It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.
Charles Spurgeon
2
79
443
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
William Gurnall
2
99
426
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. Ryle
5
64
424
But my sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in him but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.
Augustine
2
106
414
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
Charles Spurgeon
5
81
414
Judas heard all Christ's sermons.
Thomas Goodwin
14
95
424
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
John Calvin
4
69
419
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Richard Sibbes
3
122
413
No one ever said at the end of his days; ‘I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful with my soul’
J. C. Ryle
3
76
403
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God.
J. C. Ryle
8
94
403
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end
John Bunyan
3
86
412
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
Martin Luther
1
101
403
He who counts the stars and calls them by their names is in no danger of forgetting his own children.
Charles Spurgeon
5
77
405
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.
John Calvin
3
85
390
A man with God is always in the majority.
John Knox
5
66
394
A true Christian is not an angel; he is not a half-angelic being in whom is no weakness or blemish or infirmity. He is nothing more than a sinner who has found out his sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ
J. C. Ryle
3
84
388
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
John Calvin
7
98
388
Sincere repentance is continual.
Believers repent until their dying day.
Charles Spurgeon
4
88
388
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
J. C. Ryle
3
88
385
Go often to the Bible to hear the great God Himself speaking to you.
Jonathan Edwards
3
78
379
When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C. S. Lewis
1
81
378
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C. S. Lewis
4
115
376
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin
4
81
378
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
2
73
370
Our sins are many, but His mercies are more: our sins are great, but His righteousness is greater: we are weak, but He is power.
John Newton
1
88
377
Christianity, if false, is of no importance and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. Lewis
2
80
367
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for Him to forget you.
Charles Spurgeon
1
66
373
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
Martin Luther
0
77
372
The ultimate goal of the human mind is to know God.
Augustine
0
90
373
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.
Martin Luther
1
81
370
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
J. C. Ryle
14
83
364
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Richard Sibbes
1
69
369
However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
J. C. Ryle
4
74
363
It was not the worthiness of Abraham, or Moses, or David or Peter, or Paul, but the mercy of God, that made them inheritors of Heaven.
John Bunyan
2
70
357
Remember that if you are a child of God, you will never be happy in sin.
Charles Spurgeon
4
65
362
Ten minutes' praying is better than a year's murmuring.
Charles Spurgeon
0
61
359
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
Charles Spurgeon
5
76
363
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John Calvin
5
72
361